1 debian-policy (4.1.3.0) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
3 * Policy: Add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses
4 Wording: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
5 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
6 Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
7 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
8 Closes: #859649, #882628
10 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Fri, 08 Dec 2017 16:09:42 -0700
12 debian-policy (4.1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
14 * Policy: /usr/bin/perl shebang 'should' -> 'must'
15 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
16 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
17 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
18 Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
19 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
20 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
21 Seconded: Dominique Dumont <dod@debian.org>
23 * Policy: Update where private shared object files may be installed
24 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
25 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
26 Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
27 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
29 * Policy: Convention for naming packages with potentially offensive content
30 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
31 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
32 Seconded: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf@debian.org>
33 Seconded: Iain R. Learmonth <irl@debian.org>
35 * Update links to other formats in 1.2 (Closes: #877674).
36 Thanks to Laura Arjona Reina for the patch.
37 * Fix duplication in upgrading checklist.
38 /nonexistent as the canonical home directory was listed under 4.1.1
40 * Miscellaneous spelling fixes (Closes: #878523).
41 Thanks to Ville Skyttä for the patch.
42 * Drop workarounds in d/rules for the (reopened) dh_sphinxdoc bug #872863.
43 Thanks to Dmitry Shachnev for fixing the bug.
44 - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.
45 * Add a footnote documenting limitations on build-dependency
46 alternatives imposed by Debian's autobuilders (Closes: #614807).
47 Thanks to Sean Finney for the patch, and Simon McVittie for reviewing.
49 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:23:05 -0700
51 debian-policy (4.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=medium
53 * Fix some broken links in singlehtml output (Closes: #877573).
54 Thanks to Paul Wise for pointing out the problem.
56 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Tue, 03 Oct 2017 21:22:45 -0700
58 debian-policy (4.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
61 * Add back missing parentheses around the man page section in man page
62 references in the Policy manual, lost in the conversion to
63 reStructuredText. Thanks, Daniel Shahaf.
64 * Revert the contents of the policy.html directory to the multi-page
65 HTML output. (Closes: #872895)
66 * Move the single-page HTML output to policy-1.html, matching the
67 previous file name, and add the supporting _images and _static
68 directories to /usr/share/doc/debian-policy.
69 * Remove the stray policy.html.tar.gz file from the built package.
71 * Simplify the build rules for generating policy.html.
72 * Remove some stray build rules left over from DocBook Policy.
73 * Restructure the document to ensure proper section numbering in info
74 and PDF output except for the appendices. The appendix numbering
75 will require a Sphinx change. (Closes: #872893, #872950)
76 * Rename the info document to debian-policy.info to make it less
77 generic, and update the PNG file names accordingly. (Closes: #872900)
78 * Reformat the shared libraries chapter (8) to move footnotes to the end
79 of the section of their references and use more succinct
80 reStructuredText syntax. Fix some errors in the shlibs syntax and
81 examples introduced by the conversion, and missing newlines in the
82 footnote illustrating alternative templates that were lost in the
84 * Add a footnote documenting a (complex) command that returns the Debian
85 package name for a shared library. Thanks, Jakub Wilk and Julien
86 Cristau. (Closes: #661928)
87 * Add build dependency on latexmk. (Closes: #873125)
90 * Policy: debian/changelog must exist in source packages
91 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
92 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
93 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
94 Seconded: Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org>
96 * Policy: /nonexistent is the canonical non-existent home directory
97 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
98 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
99 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
101 * Policy: Correct the description of Testsuite: field
102 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
103 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
104 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
106 Thanks to Ondřej Nový for pointing out the problem.
107 * Fix a typo in 4.1.0 upgrading checklist (Closes: #873819).
108 Thanks, Martin Kepplinger.
109 * Add missing line breaks in summary of the ways in which maintainer
110 scripts may be called (Closes: #874411).
111 Thanks Sébastian Villemot for reporting the issue, and for the patch.
112 * Drop workarounds for dh_sphinxdoc's lack of support for singlehtml.
113 Thanks Dmitry Shachnev for the new support in dh_sphinxdoc.
114 - Tighten build-dep on sphinx-common.
116 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Thu, 28 Sep 2017 13:27:46 -0700
118 debian-policy (4.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=medium
121 * Policy: Packages should build reproducibly
122 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
123 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
124 Seconded: Ondrej Novy <novy@ondrej.org>
125 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
126 Seconded: Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org>
127 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
129 * Policy: Restrictions on the use of /lib64/ and /usr/lib64/
130 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
131 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
132 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
134 * Policy: Clarify how `x-terminal-emulator -e` must behave
135 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
136 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
137 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
139 * Fix a singular/plural error in 9.6.
140 Thanks to Didier Raboud for pointing out the problem.
141 * Improve release process documentation in README.md.
142 * Policy changes process:
143 - Deprecate usage of the 'issue' usertag
144 It is usually very clear whether an issue is a policy matter, so bugs
145 can be simply closed, or moved to the 'discussion' phase.
146 In the rare case that it's not clear whether the bug is a policy matter,
147 it can remain unclassified, or be tagged 'moreinfo' (see below).
148 - Add policy-specific usage for the 'moreinfo' tag.
149 * tools/policy-bug-report:
150 - Enhance to fetch bugs that have a given usertag or combination of
152 - Improve the lists of bugs generated, for posting to Planet Debian.
153 * Add convention to upgrading checklist for indicating that a policy
154 requirement is covered by Lintian.
157 * Policy: Recommend including the upstream signing key
158 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
159 Seconded: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
160 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
161 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
163 * Policy: Clearly allow non-default alternative non-free dependencies
164 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
165 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
166 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
169 [ Russ Allbery & Sean Whitton ]
170 * Convert the source of the Debian Policy Manual to reStructuredText,
171 built using the Sphinx toolchain.
172 Many thanks to Hideki Yamane <henrich@debian.or.jp> for the conversion
173 scripts, and pushing the project forward.
174 Thanks to David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> for help proofreading the
176 - Drop PostScript output.
178 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Mon, 21 Aug 2017 14:17:42 -0700
180 debian-policy (4.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
183 * Policy: Overhaul priorities, deprecate extra
184 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
185 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
186 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
187 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
188 Closes: #758234, #759260, #660249, #196367
189 * Policy: Clarify prohibition on depending on environment variables
190 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
191 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
192 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
196 * Policy: Disambiguate "original authors" in 12.5
197 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
198 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
199 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
200 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
202 * Policy: Document Testsuite: field
203 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
204 Seconded: Antonio Terceiro <terceiro@debian.org>
205 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
206 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
208 * Policy: Require calling ldconfig by means of triggers
209 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
210 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
211 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
212 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
214 * Policy: Make section 9 agnostic between Debian's init systems
215 Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
216 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
217 Seconded: Martin Pitt <mpitt@debian.org>
218 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
219 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
220 Seconded: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
221 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
223 * Policy: Packages may not install both a desktop entry and a menu entry
224 Wording: Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>
225 Seconded: Philip Hands <phil@hands.com>
226 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
227 Seconded: David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>
229 * Convert Process.md to an appendix to Policy itself.
230 - Update link in "Authors and Maintainers" to point to this new
231 appendix (Closes: #866192).
232 * Incorporate Margarita Manterola's maintscript flowcharts as a new
233 appendix (Closes: #485776).
234 Many thanks to David Bremner for help importing the images to docbook.
235 - Add a footnote to 6.6 linking to the new appendix.
236 * Update first paragraph of Appendix A to note that the final three
237 appendices (the policy changes process and the upgrading checklist)
238 were not taken from the Packaging Manual.
239 * Add a footnote linking to the REJECT-FAQ (Closes: #849853).
240 * Note that the debian/rules clean target is useless for removing files
241 not compatible with the DFSG (Closes: #849851).
242 * Add 'javascript', 'rust' archive sections (Closes: #867308).
243 * Drop remark that systems with only required packages installed are
244 "probably unusable", and add a paragraph break. (Closes: #589671).
246 -- Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> Sat, 05 Aug 2017 21:47:47 -0400
248 debian-policy (4.0.0.4) unstable; urgency=medium
250 * Fix URLs to Policy documents. Policy previously used the full URL as
251 the link but a partial URL as anchor text, and then sometimes added
252 the full URL in parentheses. The result was very ugly in the text
253 version. Replace that style with just the full URL as anchor text for
254 a link to that URL, which is not ideal for HTML output but produces
255 reasonable results for both HTML and text.
256 * Extensive reformatting of the maintainer script section.
257 - Use <cmdsynopsis> in the summary of how maintainer scripts are
258 called, with a single <term>. This avoids gluing all the command
259 summaries together with commas. The output in text is radically
260 better; HTML has some font issues, but isn't awful.
261 - Avoid trailing newlines in <screen> examples, which produce extra
262 whitespace in text and HTML output.
263 - Use different numeration methods at different levels of the nested
264 ordered lists and ensure there is some introductory text for each
265 list element to avoid awkward formatting.
266 * Convert many of the <screen> tags in Policy to </programlisting> since
267 the semantics are slightly more correct.
268 * Remove the newline before </screen> or </programlisting> end tags,
269 since it produces an extraneous and distracting blank line in both
270 text and HTML output.
271 * Change the mapping of Perl module names to Debian package names in
272 the Perl Policy from a verbatim block to a table.
273 * Change the list of cron directories from a verbatim block to a list.
275 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jun 2017 20:34:27 -0700
277 debian-policy (4.0.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
280 * Fix typo 'the' -> 'they' in upgrading checklist (Closes: #865685).
281 Thanks Sven Joachim for the report.
284 * Move the autopkgtest, copyright-format, and debconf_specification
285 source files to the top-level directory and the debconf_spec/include
286 files to a debconf directory. Simplify the build system to eliminate
287 recursive make, reuse the same XML version file for all files, and use
288 the same method of embedding a version in Markdown output for all
290 * Fix dependencies so that version.xml is generated before XML
291 validation is done on XML source files.
292 * Move README.shlibdeps and libc6-migration.txt to a new historical
293 subdirectory and add a README explaining that the files in this
294 directory are of historical interest only and are not included in the
295 debian-policy binary package.
297 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:11:19 -0700
299 debian-policy (4.0.0.2) unstable; urgency=low
302 * Update list of Policy Editors in various places.
303 See https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2017/06/msg00005.html
306 * Remove mention of the libc6 migration paper from the package long
307 description. This is no longer shipped in the debian-policy package.
309 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Mon, 19 Jun 2017 20:58:28 -0700
311 debian-policy (4.0.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
313 * Upload to unstable.
314 * Clarify the conflict policy between /path and /usr/path by adding the
315 leading slash in front of the first path. Thanks, Ferenc Wágner.
316 * Change http URLs to https for every resource available over https.
317 * Replace broken CPAN URL in the Perl policy with the current URL, and
318 turn this into an in-line link rather than a footnote with the full
319 URL. This hides the URL in the text output, but it's not horribly
320 important for the text version and easy to find with a search.
321 * Fix formatting of the list of shlibs and symbol file locations. These
322 were mistakenly converted to itemized lists instead of variable lists
323 during the DocBook conversion, which produced inferior output.
324 * Use UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1 as the character set for the text
325 versions of policy documents.
326 * Further standardize author and copyright notices.
327 - Add the notice from the main document that the copyright notices are
328 incomplete to the other documents with copyright notices.
329 - Add the Debian Policy Mailing List as an author of the debconf
331 - Replace (incorrect) Software in the Public Interest copyrights with
332 copyright notices for the original authors.
333 - Standardize capitalization of Debian Policy Mailing List in notices.
334 - Update copyright notices in debian/copyright.
335 * Add a full copy of the BSD license without advertising clause to the
336 <legalinfo> section of the debconf specification, instead of just a
338 * Update the GPL license statements to the current recommended form,
339 which doesn't include a street address for the FSF. Use all-caps for
340 the warranty disclaimer just in case it matters. Link to the general
341 FSF license page to make it easier to find the GPLv2, which is
342 technically the license under which these documents are distributed,
343 even if the GPLv3 may be used if desired.
344 * Completely rewrite the build system to use debhelper.
345 - Remove all hand-rolled package build rules and let debhelper do the
346 package construction.
347 - Remove gzip compression from the main build and let debhelper handle
348 compression of text files. This allows debhelper to control the
349 gzip flags and do whatever is correct for reproducible builds.
350 - The top-level Makefile now has conventional all and install targets
351 that build all documents and would install them (not that anyone is
352 likely to use the install target other than the packaging).
353 - Get the document publication dates from debian/changelog instead of
354 the current date for more reproducible builds.
355 - Do xmllint validation of the copyright-format and debconf
356 specification documents as well.
357 - Remove a bunch of old leftovers from the clean and distclean targets
358 and make distclean identical to clean. Stop cleaning editor
359 autosave files and patch droppings (this can be destructive).
360 - Move all doc-base files into the debian packaging directory.
361 * Restructure the command list in the debconf specification document to
362 pass xmllint, which didn't like including the body of an itemizedlist
364 * Add missing release date to the 4.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry.
365 * Fix tools/policy-bug-report to not fail when bug lists are empty and
366 to ignore closed bugs.
367 * Don't delete virtual-package-names-list.txt during make distclean.
368 * Make distclean depend on clean to remove stamp-* files.
369 * Update Standards-Version of the debian-policy package itself.
371 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 18 Jun 2017 19:27:48 -0700
373 debian-policy (4.0.0.0) experimental; urgency=low
376 * Policy: Add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses
377 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
378 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
379 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
381 * Policy: [5.6.12] forbid colons in package version numbers
382 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
383 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
384 Seconded: Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org>
385 Thanks: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
387 * Policy: [4.3] Update config.guess and config.sub during the build
388 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
389 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
390 Seconded: Andreas Barth <aba@ayous.org>
392 * Spelling fixes, thanks to Martin A. Brown. Closes: #820197
395 * Policy: [10.9] Don't contact base-passwd maintainer for dynamic users
396 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
397 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
398 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
399 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
401 * Policy: Document Build-Depends-Arch and Build-Conflicts-Arch
402 Wording: Johannes Schauer <josch@debian.org>
403 Seconded: Stuart Prescott <stuart@debian.org>
404 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
406 * Policy: Add nodoc tag to DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
407 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
408 Seconded: Johannes Schauer <j.schauer@email.de>
409 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
410 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
412 * Policy: Prohibit file conflicts between /bin and /usr/bin
413 Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
414 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
415 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
416 Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
418 * Policy: Debug packages don't need a debian/control paragraph
419 Wording: Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+debian@ortolo.eu>
420 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
421 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
423 * Policy: New dpkg-architecture flags
424 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
425 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
426 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
428 * Policy: Remove even the fallback to calling /etc/init.d directly
429 Wording: Ondřej Nový <onovy@debian.org>
430 Seconded: Michael Stapelberg <stapelberg@debian.org>
431 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
433 * Policy: Limit strength of dependencies on -doc packages
434 Wording: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
435 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
436 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
437 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
439 * Policy: Explicitly allow https form of copyright-format URL
440 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
441 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
442 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
443 Seconded: Didier 'OdyX' Raboud <odyx@debian.org>
445 * Policy: Recommend libraryname-dev or librarynameAPIVERSION-dev
446 Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
447 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
448 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
450 * Policy: Add optional try-restart init status, make status recommended
451 Wording: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
452 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
453 Seconded: Felipe Sateler <fsateler@debian.org>
454 Seconded: Ondřej Nový <novy@ondrej.org>
456 * Policy: No special dependency now required for /run
457 Wording: Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>
458 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
459 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
461 * Policy: Update policy on /dev and device file management
462 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
463 Seconded: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@fatal.se>
464 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
466 * Policy: Remove integration instructions for upstart
467 Wording: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
468 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
469 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
470 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
472 * Perl: Update module search path for multiarch support
473 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
474 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
475 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
477 * virtual-package-names-list: Add adventure
478 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
480 Seconded: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
482 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi3
483 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
484 Seconded: Brian May <bam@debian.org>
485 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
487 * virtual-package-names-list: Add virtual-mysql-* packages
488 Wording: Otto Kekäläinen <otto@debian.org>
489 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
490 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
492 * Convert all remaining DebianDoc-SGML source files in the package to
493 DocBook XML. Many thanks to Osamu Aoki and Guillem Jover for lots of
494 hard work on the conversion. This was a huge conversion, so there
495 will probably be some lingering formatting issues, incorrect markup,
496 and less-than-ideal output. Please report any problems as bugs.
497 (Closes: #175064, #700532, #809382)
498 * Additional fixes from Guillem Jover as part of the DocBook conversion:
499 - Stop distributing the source SGML files as part of the installed
500 package. There doesn't seem to be any point in doing this.
501 - Switch to xsltproc and dblatex instead of OpenJade.
502 - Stop using tidy on the generated files since it generates larger
503 files and the output from xsltproc is already compliant and fairly
505 - Remove unused Build-Depends.
506 - Use entities instead of literal <, >, and & characters.
507 - Use <var> instead of escaped angle brackets for metavariables.
508 - Use <var> instead of <em> inside <tt>.
509 - Avoid slashes in section IDs.
510 - Convert a comment about maintenance policy in the Menu Policy
511 document to a regular paragraph in the document.
512 - Replace a comment reference to the policy maintenance process with
513 an actual link to Process.md.
514 - Remove obsolete SGML comments.
515 * Move the description of < and > relations to a footnote to make
516 abundantly clear that they're no longer valid relation operators in
517 dependencies. (Closes: #816515)
518 * Clarify informative mentions of debian/tmp in the appendices to
519 document the now-common use of debian/<pkg> instead as the temporary
520 staging area. Document that convention, instead of
521 debian/tmp-something, for multi-binary packages. Thanks, Niels
522 Thykier. (Closes: #816249)
523 * Remove lingering wording that implied that build-arch and build-indep
524 targets are optional. Thanks, Ferenc Wagner, Jakub Wilk, and Charles
525 Plessy. (Closes: #793999)
526 * Rather than giving the paths to the installed shlibs and symbols files
527 and then saying those paths shouldn't be used, just say to use
528 dpkg-query --control-show. Recommend --control-show instead of
529 --control-path, since the latter is deprecated. Patch from Salvatore
530 Bonaccorso. (Closes: #688220)
531 * Explicitly give Unicode code points in the definition of the syntax of
532 Debian control files and, where appropriate, show the character.
533 Patch from Ben Finney. (Closes: #821365)
534 * Remove obsolete footnote about a versioned dependency on a
535 liblockfile1 release from 1999. Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #794902)
536 * Fix the long name of the Common Public License in the copyright-format
537 policy. It is just Common Public License, with no leading "IBM".
538 Thanks, Stefano Zacchiroli. (Closes: #781654)
539 * Fix the copyright-format examples to not have duplicate License
540 paragraphs. Thanks, Stefan <bd@bc-bd.org>. (Closes: #824922)
541 * Replace reference to dbus-launch in the autopkgtest documentation with
542 dbus-run-session. Patch from Simon McVittie. (Closes: #835876)
543 * Add an example of an architecture restriction in a dependency with
544 multiple architectures separated by spaces. (Closes: #734662)
545 * Replace use of markdown with MultiMarkdown for the autopkgtest
546 documentation and convert README and Process to MultiMarkdown, thus
547 dropping the last org-mode files and the build dependency on Emacs.
548 Patch from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #849483)
549 * Add some additional information to the upgrading-checklist entry for
551 * Fix debian/changelog and upgrading-checklist dates for the 3.9.8.0
552 release to match the actual upload. (Closes: #822059)
553 * Fix duplicated "the" words in 4.4 and 8.6.3.2. Patch from Valentin
554 Samir. (Closes: #830989)
555 * Clean up the upgrading checklist a bit:
556 - Rewrite the introduction to read a bit more smoothly and mention
557 that the Standards-Version value omits the minor patch number.
558 - Remove the minor patch number from all the version headings except
559 for the anomalies that contain normative changes, and note those
561 - Remove some unhelpful section headings and trailing colons in very
562 old upgrading checklist entries.
563 - Standardize the release date format.
564 * Compress all files with gzip -n to avoid embedding timestamps,
565 enabling reproducible builds.
566 * Redo some of the Makefile and debian/rules dependencies to avoid
567 ambiguous pattern rules and to ensure that make at the top level
568 rebuilds output files if input files change.
569 * Switch to https URLs for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser.
570 * Use the same URL for both Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser, which now works
571 fine and has some advantages over the gitweb version for Vcs-Browser.
572 Thanks, Mattia Rizzolo.
573 * Run wrap-and-sort -ast.
574 * Tag as Multi-Arch: foreign (mostly to silence the hinter).
577 * Remove references to DebianDoc-SGML from README.md.
578 * Fix typo & comma splice in Process.md.
580 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 28 May 2017 12:27:07 -0700
582 debian-policy (3.9.8.0) unstable; urgency=medium
584 * Policy: The Debian menu is optionally supported.
585 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
586 Seconded: Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezmeyer@gmail.com>
587 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org> (for the menu entries)
588 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
591 -- Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2016 03:49:58 +0000
593 debian-policy (3.9.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
595 * Policy: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
596 * Makefile: use gzip -n when compressing generated files.
597 * debian/control, Makefile:
598 - add missing Build-Depends on sp (opensp). Closes: #812663
599 - migrate to openjade and opensp.
600 * debian/rules: no more ship libc6-migration.txt. Closes: #797478
601 * Policy: Symbolic links must not traverse above the root directory.
602 Wording: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
603 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
604 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
605 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
607 * Policy: [9.2.2] document 32-bit UIDs ranges.
608 Wording: Matthew Vernon <matthew@debian.org>
609 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
610 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
611 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
613 * Policy: [5.1] empty field values in control files are only permitted in
614 the debian/control file of a source package.
615 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
616 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
617 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
619 * Policy: [4.9] debian/rules: required targets must not attempt network
621 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
622 Seconded: Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org>
623 Seconded: Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@debian.org>
625 * Policy: [12.3] recommend to ship additional documentation for package 'pkg'
626 in a separate package 'pkg-doc' and install it into /usr/share/doc/pkg.
627 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
628 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
629 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
632 [ Stefano Zacchiroli ]
633 * autopkgtest: new document containing the specification of automatic,
634 as-installed (AKA autopkgtest, or DEP-8) package tests
637 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 01 Feb 2016 23:03:51 +0100
639 debian-policy (3.9.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
641 * Fix FTBFS with emacs 24.4. Thanks to David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
642 for the help. Closes: #769219
644 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:55:55 +0100
646 debian-policy (3.9.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
649 * upgrading-checklist.sgml: remove spurious 'details in' leftover from
650 the HTML transition. Closes: #740100. Thanks Jakub Wilk.
652 - Build-Depends emacs-nox|emacs instead of emacs23. Closes: #753999
653 Thanks Gabriele Giacone and Rob Browning.
654 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
655 * Policy: [11.5.1] Web servers: Fix use of metasyntactic variables and
656 applications Closes: #737730. Thanks Olivier Berger.
657 * Policy: [5.6.21] Files: Fix typo "by" -> be. Closes: #753353.
658 Thanks Benedikt Wildenhain.
659 * Policy: Remove reference to DEHS (dead service)
660 Wording: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
661 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
662 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
664 * Policy: Relax /usr/share FHS requirement for directories with mixed content.
665 Wording: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
666 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
667 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
668 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
669 Seconded: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
671 * Perl Policy: @INC has /usr/lib/perl/5.18, not /usr/lib/perl/5.18.2
672 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
673 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
674 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
676 * Perl Policy: Explain %Config earlier
677 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
678 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
679 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
681 * Perl Policy: @INC changes for multiarch
682 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
683 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
684 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
686 * Perl Policy: Packages using Perl vendorarch directory need a perlapi-*
688 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
689 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
690 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
691 Seconded: Axel Beckert <abe@debian.org>
693 * Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch headers directories
694 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
695 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
696 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
698 * Policy: Discourage statically linked binaries
699 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
700 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
701 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
703 * Policy: Clarify whose signature should go in debian/changelog (4.4)
704 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
705 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
706 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
708 * Policy: Change default web document root to /var/www/html
709 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
710 Seconded: Arno Töll <arno@debian.org>
711 Seconded: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de>
713 * virtual-package-names-list: Update java runtime list
714 Wording: Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg@apache.org>
715 Seconded: Tony Mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
716 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
718 * virtual-package-names-list: Add httpd-wsgi
719 Wording: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
720 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
721 Seconded: Piotr Ożarowski <piotr@debian.org>
724 * Policy: Drop FHS requirement that /usr/local/lib<qual> exist when /lib<qual>
725 or /usr/lib<qual> does.
726 Wording: Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>
727 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
728 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
729 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
732 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 17 Sep 2014 20:03:20 +0200
734 debian-policy (3.9.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
736 * Policy: Document the Package-List field.
737 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
738 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
739 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
741 * Policy: DM-Upload-Allowed is now obsolete
742 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
743 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
744 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
745 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
747 * Policy: Checksums-{Sha1,Sha256} are now mandatory
748 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
749 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
750 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
752 * Policy: Requirements for udebs are not well documented yet
753 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
754 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
755 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
756 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
757 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
759 * Policy: install-info is run by a dpkg trigger.
760 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
761 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
762 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
764 * Policy: Stop recommending to serve HTML documents from /usr/share/doc.
765 Wording: Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
766 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
767 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
769 * Policy: File names encoded in UTF-8. ASCII preferred and mandatory in PATH.
770 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
771 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
772 Seconded: Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>
774 * Policy: Document the Dgit field for Debian Source Control files.
775 Wording: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
776 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
777 Seconded: Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>
778 Seconded: Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox@debian.org>
780 * Policy: Remove the exception to the FHS for the /selinux directory.
781 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
782 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
783 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
785 * Policy: on upgrades, recommend removing obsolete unchanged conf. files.
786 Wording: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
787 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
788 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
790 * Policy: Control data fields must not start with a hyphen character.
791 Wording: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
793 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
795 * debconf_spec: Document the 'escape' capability.
796 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
797 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
798 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
800 * virtual-package-names-list: removed mp3-decoder and mp3-encoder.
801 Seconded: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
802 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
803 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
805 * Clean outdated mentions of dpkg commands in appendix. Thanks, Guillem Jover
806 * Remove outdated mention of dselect documentation.
807 Closes: #700574. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
808 * Update dak reference from old katie name.
809 Closes: #700536. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
810 * Fix typo in 8.6.4. Thanks, Raúl Benencia. (Closes: #691352)
811 * Fix typo in 8.6.4.1. Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>.
812 * Added a warning in appendix G about diverting conffiles.
813 Closes: #703022. Thanks, Torsten Jerzembeck.
814 * List build-arch and build-indep with the other required targets in 4.9.
815 Closes: #704657. Thanks, Philipp Hahn.
816 * Replaced non-standard names of dpkg states by normalised ones.
818 * Clarify what is meant by "compressed" in section 10.5. (Closes: #676784)
819 * Packaging: use the VCS URLs proposed by Lintian.
820 * Packaging: normalised debian/control with the tool "config-model-edit".
821 * Packaging: refreshed the names of the Policy Editors.
823 -- Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> Mon, 28 Oct 2013 09:40:48 +0900
825 debian-policy (3.9.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
827 * build-arch and build-indep are now mandatory targets in debian/rules,
828 implementing the Technical Committee ruling in #629385. Wording
829 review by Jonathan Nieder, Jakub Wilk, and Roger Leigh.
831 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding tasks.
832 Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #670429)
833 * Policy: Copyright files must be encoded in UTF-8
834 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
835 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
836 Seconded: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
837 Seconded: Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>
839 * Policy: Prohibit deprecated < and > relations
840 Wording: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
841 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
842 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
844 * Policy: Document the Built-Using field
845 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
846 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
847 Seconded: Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@debian.org>
849 * Policy: Document the Vcs-* fields
850 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
851 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
852 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
853 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
854 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
856 * Policy: Document restrictions on the use of /run for wheezy
857 Wording: Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
858 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
859 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
861 * Policy: Rewrite shared library dependency policy to document symbols
862 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
863 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
864 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
865 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
867 * Policy: Document generic and upstart-specific init system requirements
868 Wording: Steve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>
869 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
870 Seconded: Adam D. Barratt <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>
872 * Policy: Rely on triggers instead of calling update-mime
873 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
874 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
875 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
878 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:36 -0700
880 debian-policy (3.9.3.1) unstable; urgency=low
882 * Fix cross-reference to control field syntax in Policy 5.4 (source
883 package control files). Thanks, Jakub Wilk. (Closes: #661412)
884 * Additional wording improvements to copyright-format 1.0 for clarity.
885 Also mention that the Files pattern syntax is the same as fnmatch(3)
886 and GNU find -path without [] patterns. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder and
888 * Suggest checkbashisms from devscripts or the posh shell for checking
889 whether /bin/sh scripts are Policy-compliant rather than recommending
890 dash. Thanks, Raphael Geissert. (Closes: #490604)
891 * Remove the ambiguous word "installed" when requiring that the location
892 of files and directories follow the FHS. (Closes: #638060)
893 * Clarify the syntax of field names to make it clear that they may not
894 contain spaces. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #647645)
895 * Clarify that only one of build-arch or build-indep may be provided
896 (currently, at least) and that build should depend on whichever exist
897 or perform the equivalent actions. Thanks to Jonathan Nieder for some
898 of the wording. (Closes: #601839)
899 * Clearly state that "yes" is the only valid value of DM-Upload-Allowed
900 and rewrite its description to be less indirect. (Closes: #622263)
901 * Update the dpkg-buildpackage -r documentation in the appendix to
902 reflect the current behavior of using fakeroot. Wording from Sam
903 Morris. (Closes: #658009)
904 * Fix the legal notice in copyright-format to not refer to a nonexistent
906 * Embed the Debian Policy version and build date in the debconf
907 specification and the copyright-format document. We'll make
908 non-normative changes without updating other version numbers, and it's
909 good to know which version one is looking at.
910 * Fix some whitespace issues in the debconf specification articleinfo.
911 * Install the HTML version of upgrading-checklist in the policy.html
912 directory as upgrading-checklist.html so that it can be deployed on
913 www.debian.org in a way that will allow links to Policy sections to
914 work easily. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Partly addresses #639663)
915 * Ship the copyright-format source as copyright-format.xml.tar.gz
916 without a version, since it will include all of the versions, not just
918 * Fix mistaken word choice (prefix instead of suffix) in the upgrading
919 checklist entry for 3.9.3.0.
920 * Add some missing entries to the virtual package names list changelog.
921 * Expand package long description to include all documents.
922 * Remove unused substitution variable generated by the build. Thanks,
924 * Strip down and reformat debian/rules to remove unused variables,
925 references to old files no longer included, use a more standard
926 layout and standardize variable names, and add comments for better
928 * Convert debian/copyright to copyright-format 1.0, and in the process
929 add the license information for the documents other than Policy itself
930 and the FHS. Note the implication of the GPL source code requirement
931 for distributing generated versions of the Policy documents.
933 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 04 Mar 2012 15:02:12 -0800
935 debian-policy (3.9.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
938 * Update the copyright format document to the version of DEP-5 from the
939 DEP web site and apply additional changes from subsequent discussion
940 in debian-devel and debian-project. Revise for clarity, to add more
941 examples, and to update the GFDL license versions. Thanks, Steve
942 Langasek, Charles Plessy, Justin B Rye, and Jonathan Nieder.
943 (Closes: #658209, #648387)
944 * Publish the copyright format specification as copyright-format-1.0 so
945 that later versions can be added without removing previous versions of
946 the standard. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #646119)
947 * Policy: Improve Architecture field in source package
948 Wording: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
949 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
950 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
951 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
953 * Policy: Initial Debian maintainers need not be listed in copyright
954 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
955 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
956 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
957 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
959 * Policy: Document cron job file naming restrictions
960 Wording: Karl E. Jorgensen <karl@jorgensen.org.uk>
961 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
962 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
963 Seconded: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li>
964 Seconded: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <jfs@computer.org>
966 * Policy: Document issues with conflicting packages sharing a conffile
967 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
968 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
969 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
971 * Policy: Add /run FHS exception, clarify rules for /run and /var/run
972 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
973 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
974 Seconded: Roger Leigh <rleigh@codelibre.net>
975 Closes: #620870, #532120
976 * Policy: Architecture restrictions in a dependency must be non-empty
977 Wording: Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org>
978 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
979 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
980 Seconded: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
982 * MIME Policy: Retire this document and merge it with Policy
983 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
984 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
985 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
986 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
988 * Consistently use "Debian source control file" for *.dsc files and
989 "Source package control file" for debian/control files. Patch from
990 Charles Plessy. (Closes: #626796)
991 * Clarify that continuation lines of the Description control field must
992 contain at least one non-whitespace character. Thanks, Guillem Jover.
994 * Fix the example of creating a /usr/local subdirectory to not fail if
995 the chown or chmod fail. Thanks, Joey Hess. (Closes: #617315)
996 * Clarify the requirements for symlinks from inside one top-level
997 directory to another and add examples and a rationale. Thanks,
998 Carsten Hey. (Closes: #626338)
999 * Clarify that Perl Policy 2.4 is for packages built from the perl
1000 source package and the manual page extensions are different for
1001 separate module packages. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #643690)
1002 * Say that packages in main may also not recommend packages in non-free,
1003 bringing the main text in line with the list of fields and in line
1004 with the long-standing release goal. (Closes: #646166)
1005 * Resynchronize the archive section list with ftp-master, adding
1006 education, introspection, and metapackages. Patch from Charles
1007 Plessy. (Closes: #651020)
1008 * Clarify that packages in main may not declare Pre-Depends or
1009 Build-Depends-Indep relationships outside of main either. Partly
1011 * Fix typo in the version numbers in the dpkg-divert examples. Thanks,
1013 * Add the release date of 3.9.2.0 to upgrading-checklist.
1014 * Fix ordering of the last entries in the 3.9.2.0 upgrading-checklist.
1015 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist entry for multiarch paths. Thanks,
1016 Michael Dorrington. (Closes: #626408)
1017 * Add id tags for each version entry in upgrading-checklist so that,
1018 when eventually published somewhere, other Debian web sites can link
1019 to specific entries. Patch from Charles Plessy.
1020 * Add AGPL-3 to tools/license-count.
1021 * Update tools/license-count to work with the new Lintian lab layout.
1022 * Add build-arch and build-indep targets to debian/rules.
1025 * Policy: Link relationship fields (7.1) to architecture specification
1027 Patch from Charles Plessy in #628174.
1028 * Policy: Retire legacy Motif policy (11.8.8)
1029 Proposed by: Justin B Rye
1030 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1031 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1032 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1033 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1035 * copyright-format: Fix URL for the Eiffel Forum License.
1036 Reported by Thomas Preud'homme, patch by Charles Plessy.
1038 * copyright-format: Update SPDX link to point to the SPDX license registry.
1039 Patch by Charles Plessy. Closes: #628540
1040 * copyright-format: Correct or add links to SPDX.
1041 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1042 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1044 * Policy: Clarify that 'machine-extractable' referer the copyright
1046 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1047 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
1048 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1050 * copyright-format: remove drivers from abstract and useless appendix
1051 Wording: Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
1052 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1053 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1055 * copyright-format: Fix syntax of examples.
1056 Proposed by: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1057 Wording: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
1059 * copyright-format: Clarify specification of multiple license exception:
1060 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1061 Seconded: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>
1062 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1063 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1064 Seconded: Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>
1066 * copyright-format: Specify URL on www.debian.org
1067 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1068 Seconded: David Prévot <taffit@debian.org>
1069 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1071 * Perl policy: Document major version upgrade trigger
1072 Wording: Dominic Hargreaves <dom@debian.org>
1073 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1074 Seconded: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
1075 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1077 * Virtual: change ttf-japanese-{mincho, gothic} to
1078 fonts-japanese-{mincho, gothic}.
1079 Proposed by: Nobuhiro Iwamatsu <iwamatsu@nigauri.org>
1080 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1081 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
1083 * Virtual: Retire java-compiler, java2-compiler, and java-virtual-machine.
1084 Proposed by: Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>
1085 Seconded: tony mancill <tmancill@debian.org>
1086 Seconded: Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org>
1088 * Policy 9.10: No more recommend to call install-docs for doc-base.
1089 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1090 Seconded: Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org>
1091 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1094 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 22 Feb 2012 19:40:36 -0800
1096 debian-policy (3.9.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1098 * Policy: Require human Maintainer or Uploader, clarify Maintainer
1099 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1100 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1101 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1102 Closes: #459868, #581011
1103 * Policy: Add an FHS exception on GNU/Hurd for /hurd and /servers
1104 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1105 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1106 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1108 * Policy: Document DM-Upload-Allowed
1109 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1110 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1111 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1113 * Policy: Update multiarch FHS exception for i386 naming
1114 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1115 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
1116 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1118 * Policy: Significant additions to maintainer script documentation
1119 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1120 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1121 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1123 * Policy: Clarify format of Debian control fields
1124 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1125 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1126 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1127 Closes: #501930, #593909
1128 * Virtual: Added mailx as a new virtual package
1129 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1130 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1131 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1133 * Be more verbose in defining the build architecture and the host
1134 architecture and consistently refer to architecture rather than
1135 machine. (Closes: #591857)
1136 * Correct the name of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard in the package
1137 description. Patch from Christoph Anton Mitterer. (Closes: #590696)
1138 * Use the word "implemented" to describe required targets in
1139 debian/rules, which is clearer about allowing wildcard rules. List
1140 the required rules in their own paragraph rather than with the
1141 paragraph discussing non-interactivity, and explicitly mark all rules
1142 as either required or optional. (Closes: #536790)
1143 * Update the ldconfig footnote listing the /etc/ld.so.conf directories
1144 to remove the libc5 compatibility directories and mention the
1145 multiarch triplet directories. Based on a patch by Charles Plessy.
1147 * Add introductory paragraphs for each archive area explaining briefly
1148 the purpose of that archive area. Based on a proposal by CJ
1149 Fearnley. (Closes: #594542)
1150 * Change all non-historical references to Debian GNU/Linux to simply
1151 Debian since Debian now includes FreeBSD-based architectures. Patch
1152 from Guillem Jover. (Closes: #594656)
1153 * Remove references to the obsolete debmake package.
1154 * Update the list of Policy maintainers.
1155 * Wrap Uploaders in debian/control.
1156 * Move Build-Depends-Indep to Build-Depends (there's no reason to use
1157 -Indep in a package that builds only architecture-independent binary
1158 packages), wrap it, and remove version restrictions that are older
1159 than the version in oldstable.
1160 * Add emacs23 to the build dependencies and remove the files generated
1161 from org source from the revision control repository. Build and clean
1162 files from org source unconditionally. Add Process.{txt,html} to the
1163 list of files generated from org source. (Closes: #594274)
1164 * Fix URLs under www.freedesktop.org to avoid permanent redirects.
1165 Thanks, David Prévot. (Closes: #606869)
1166 * Add a cross-reference to the Pre-Depends requirement in 3.5 to section
1167 7.2 where Pre-Depends is defined. Thanks, Mattias Ellert and Jonathan
1168 Nieder. (Closes: #599944)
1169 * Include the new (optional) copyright format that was drafted as DEP-5.
1170 This is not yet a final version; that's expected to come in the
1171 3.9.3.0 release. Thanks to all the DEP-5 contributors and to Lars
1172 Wirzenius and Charles Plessy for the integration into the Policy
1173 package. (Closes: #609160)
1175 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:48:55 -0700
1177 debian-policy (3.9.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1179 * Policy: Include GPL version 1 in common-licenses
1180 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1181 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1182 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
1183 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1185 * Policy: Libtool *.la files should generally not be installed
1186 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1187 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1188 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1190 * Policy: Require dpkg-divert --package when adding/removing diversions
1191 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1192 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1193 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
1195 * Policy: Remove encouragement to create shlibs.local
1196 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1197 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1198 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1199 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1200 * Policy: Document alternate SONAME format with version before .so
1201 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1202 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1203 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1205 * Policy: Architecture wildcards also allowed in binary relationships
1206 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1207 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1208 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1210 * Policy: Say Conflicts should not be used unless necessary
1211 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1212 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1213 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1215 * Policy: Remove obsolete _REENTRANT, require thread-safe libraries
1216 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1217 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1218 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1220 * Policy: Allow subdirectories of /usr/lib/cgi-bin to be used
1221 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1222 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1223 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1225 * Policy: More specific requirements around date-based versions
1226 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1227 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1228 Seconded: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1229 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1231 * Policy: Require slave alternatives for manual pages
1232 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1233 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1234 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1235 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1237 * Policy: More explicit requirements around library SONAMEs
1238 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1239 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1240 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
1242 * Policy: Only dpkg-gencontrol supports variable substitutions
1243 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1244 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1245 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1247 * Policy: Ada Library Information files must be read-only
1248 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1249 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1250 Seconded: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
1252 * Policy: Recommend /etc/logrotate.d/package for logrotate rules
1253 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1254 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1255 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
1257 * Policy: Allow /bin/sh scripts to rely on XSI for kill and trap
1258 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1259 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1260 Seconded: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>
1262 * Policy: Ownership and permissions for control information files
1263 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1264 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1265 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1267 * Set the version of the Perl Policy to match the version of the Policy
1269 * Explain the Perl module package naming policy more explicitly and
1270 provide some examples. (Closes: #175202)
1271 * Revise the footnote discussing shlibs creation to not talk about the
1272 switch to objdump as if it were a new innovation and to explicitly
1273 mention the NEEDED attribute as the source of dependency information.
1274 * Introduce "control information file" to refer to the contents of the
1275 Debian package control.tar.gz, following the dpkg documentation. Use
1276 that terminology consistently, and change possibly confusing
1277 references to fields in control files to use "control field"
1279 * Document that the first line of the changelog entry is conventionally
1280 an explanation for the upload if the uploader is not the regular
1281 maintainer. Patch from Charles Plessy. (Closes: #589605)
1282 * Fix typo in upgrading-checklist. (Closes: #588750)
1283 * Fix formatting error in footnote to 7.7. (Closes: #589362)
1284 * Remove ancient Conflicts and Replaces.
1286 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:38:21 -0700
1288 debian-policy (3.9.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1291 * Fix path to changelog.Debian.gz in footnote on documentation symlinks.
1294 * Convert upgrading-checklist to debiandoc-sgml. This generates a better
1297 * Fix typo in package_upstream-version.orig.tar.gz.
1298 Thanks, Salvatore Bonaccorso. (Closes: #558430)
1299 * Replace 'copyright and distribution license' by 'copyright information
1300 and distribution license' (three times).
1301 Proposed by Jonathan Nieder.
1302 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1303 Seconded: Thijs Kinkhorst <thijs@debian.org>
1304 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1305 Seconded: Gregor Herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1307 * extend UID range of user accounts by removing the 30000-59999 reserved
1309 Proposed by Santiago Vila
1310 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1311 Seconded: Luk Claes <luk@debian.org>
1312 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1313 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1317 * Policy: Overhaul Breaks, Conflicts, Provides, and Replaces
1318 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1319 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1320 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1322 * Policy: Support for architecture wildcards
1323 Wording: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1324 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1325 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1326 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1327 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1329 * Policy: Except init.d scripts from the normal set -e requirement
1330 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1331 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1332 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1334 * Policy: Maintainer scripts might not have a controlling terminal
1335 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1336 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1337 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1338 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1340 * Policy: Fully specify the date format for changelog entries
1341 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1342 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1343 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1344 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi <cate@debian.org>
1346 * Policy: Deprecate /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD
1347 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1348 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1349 Seconded: Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
1350 Seconded: gregor herrmann <gregoa@debian.org>
1352 * Policy: Document Checksums-Sha1 and Checksums-Sha256
1353 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
1354 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1355 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1357 * Policy: Prohibit duplicate field names in a control paragraph
1358 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1359 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1360 Seconded: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1361 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1363 * Policy: Relax requirement that library dev files be in one package
1364 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1365 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1366 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1368 * Policy: Tighten requirements for maintainer-like fields
1369 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1370 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu@debian.org>
1371 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1373 * Policy: Update Format control field documentation
1374 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1375 Wording: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1376 Seconded: Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>
1377 Seconded: Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <pochu27@gmail.com>
1379 * Debconf: Add SETTITLE, like title but uses a template
1380 Wording: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
1381 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1382 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1384 * Perl Policy: Change perlapi provides to use an ABI version
1385 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
1386 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1387 Seconded: Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
1388 Seconded: Damyan Ivanov <dmn@debian.org>
1390 * Perl Policy: Recommend DESTDIR instead of PREFIX with Makefile.PL
1391 Wording: Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
1392 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1393 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1395 * Standardize dpkg state wording and bring it in line with dpkg,
1396 renaming Failed-Config to Half-Configured and use uniform
1397 capitalization and punctuation. (Closes: #442134)
1398 * Remove documentation of alternative changelog formats. This feature
1399 is not allowed in the Debian archive and will be documented in the
1400 dpkg-dev documentation instead. The documentation that was in Policy
1401 was also somewhat outdated. (Closes: #555009, see #584141)
1402 * Remove obsolete footnote sentence saying that dpkg-statoverride is a
1403 new feature and not well-known. (Closes: #563425)
1404 * Clarify in the Perl Policy that perl-base is essential, not perl, and
1405 don't imply packages need to depend on perl-base. (Closes: #576594)
1406 * Document the special debian-installer section in the list of current
1407 sections and add a link to the list of sections in unstable, which
1408 contains longer descriptions. (Closes: #577666)
1409 * Remove the footnote listing every architecture known to dpkg. This
1410 list can be trivially produced by dpkg-architecture -L (already
1411 noted), is very long, and quickly becomes out-of-date.
1412 * Move silly version ordering example to a footnote. (Closes: #560839)
1413 * Reletter the process steps to not skip State C and use more
1414 traditional foreground and background colors for Process.html and
1415 README.html. (Closes: #584521)
1416 * Fix typo in footnote about help2man. (Closes: #584796)
1417 * Add an example for Replaces when a package is split. Thanks, Uwe
1418 Kleine-König. (Closes: #572253)
1419 * Explicitly state that packages may remove unmodified, obsolete
1420 configuration files during upgrade. (Closes: #470633)
1421 * Clarify the wording around which build dependencies must be satisfied
1422 for different debian/rules targets and add a footnote to the
1423 description of the build-arch and build-indep targets explaining why
1424 this split does not currently work as desired. (Closes: #328951)
1425 * Avoid "Debianised" or "Debianized" in favor of just "Debian" or
1426 "Debian package" as appropriate. Patch from Ben Finney.
1428 * Switch to source format 3.0 (native).
1430 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 27 Jun 2010 21:40:52 -0700
1432 debian-policy (3.8.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
1435 * Also provide documents in single-file HTML format.
1436 Proposed by Jari Aalto.
1438 * Number the DFSG points like in the social_contract document.
1439 Proposed by Enrico Zini.
1442 [ Manoj Srivastava ]
1443 * [b270d2d]: Typo fix: relayed -> related. Thanks to Matt Kraai for
1446 Policy: Grant an FHS exception for the multiarch library directories
1447 Wording: Steve Langasek.
1448 Seconded: Aurelien Jarno
1449 Seconded: Julien Cristau
1450 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx
1453 virtual package list: Added Doom virtual packages
1454 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
1455 Seconded: Russ Allbery
1456 Seconded: Giacomo A. Catenazzi
1459 README Process upgrading-checklist: Created/converted to org-mode
1460 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
1461 Seconded: Russ Allbery
1463 * [4da0692]: [typo-fixes]:
1464 policy: Fix a number of grammatical or typographical errors
1465 wording: Eric Dantan Rzewnicki
1466 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava
1467 * [112c4bc]: FHS Exceptions
1468 policy: Explicitly allow /selinux and /sys as FHS exceptions
1469 Wording: Manoj Srivastava
1470 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1471 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1473 This patch explicitly allows /sys and /selinux as additional
1474 directories in the root file system allowed under the policy.
1475 * [16afbcb]: Clarify ./debian/rules #! line
1476 policy: Clarify rule for debian/rules shebang line
1477 Wording: Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
1478 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1479 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1480 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1481 Explicitly state that "make -f debian/rules" and "./debian/rules"
1482 must behave identically, to prevent confusion, and to promote
1483 reproducibility, and conform to the principle of least surprise.
1484 * [dab93b2]: Add a cron-daemon virtual package
1485 policy, virtual package list: New virtual package: cron-daemon
1486 wording: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Manoj Srivastava
1487 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1488 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1490 Create a virtual cron daemon package that:
1491 - Has to provide /usr/bin/crontab and support crontab entries
1492 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.d
1493 - Correct support of /etc/crontab
1494 - Support of crontab entries with names for days and months,
1496 - Correct execution of /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}
1499 * Policy: Clarify policy on named pipes in packages
1500 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1501 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1502 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1503 * Change the sole occurrence of MUST to must for consistency and to
1504 avoid confusion with IETF RFC keywords. Thanks, Jakub Wilk.
1507 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:22:43 +0100
1509 debian-policy (3.8.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1511 * Policy: Bring Architecture description in line with dpkg-source
1512 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1513 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1514 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1516 * Policy: Update information about DEB_*_ARCH variables
1517 Wording: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1518 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1519 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1521 * Policy: Remove support for uploads to multiple distributions
1522 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1523 Seconded: Raphael Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1524 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1526 * Policy: Remove permission for packages to modify ld.so.conf
1527 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1528 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1529 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1530 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1531 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1533 * Policy: Clarify X installation directory handling
1534 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1535 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1536 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1537 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1539 * Policy: Localized man pages should be up-to-date or warn
1540 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1541 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1542 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1544 * Policy: Remove restriction on manual page character encoding
1545 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1546 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1547 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@golden-gryphon.com>
1549 * Policy: Allow Binary field to span multiple lines
1550 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1551 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1552 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1554 * Policy: Revise info requirements for triggerized install-info
1555 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1556 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1557 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1559 * Perl Policy: Remove obsolete dependency requirements
1560 Wording: Cyril Brulebois <kibi@debian.org>
1561 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1562 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1564 * Breaks is now supported by the stable release of dpkg, so drop
1565 warnings against its use. Thanks, Steve Langasek. (Closes: #533577)
1566 * Add references to the sections on Breaks and Conflicts to the section
1567 on binary dependencies. Thanks, Frank Küster. (Closes: #529771)
1568 * Clarify the units of Installed-Size and document that it is an
1569 approximation. Thanks, Martin Dorey. (Closes: #534408)
1570 * Don't suggest calling dpkg-statoverride --remove unconditionally in
1571 the postrm script. Thanks, Patrick Schoenfeld. (Closes: #539389)
1572 * Explain that the copyright dates are for the original Policy manual
1573 and that there is no updated list of copyright holders for subsequent
1574 revisions available. (Partly addresses #47438)
1575 * Clarify the description of the Files control field and add examples.
1576 * Change the wording of the Description and Changes field specifications
1577 for *.changes files to more closely match the wording for Files and
1578 add more details about the contents of the Description field in
1580 * Merge the package name syntax requirements between the Package and
1581 Source field descriptions.
1582 * Say that sensible-editor and sensible-pager are provided by the
1583 sensible-utils package, not by the base system. Thanks, Clint Adams
1584 and Steve Langasek. (Closes: #541537)
1585 * Document that control field values are case-sensitive unless the field
1586 description says otherwise.
1588 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sat, 15 Aug 2009 17:13:26 -0700
1590 debian-policy (3.8.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1593 * Policy: Mandate debconf or equivalent for user prompting
1594 Wording: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1595 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1596 Seconded: Holger Levsen <holger@layer-acht.org>
1597 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1598 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1600 * Policy: Remove /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 FHS exception
1601 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1602 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1603 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1605 * Policy: Remove obsolete /var/mail transition requirement
1606 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1607 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1608 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <andrew@morphoss.com>
1610 * Policy: Move Speedo fonts into the deprecated category
1611 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1612 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1613 Seconded: Julien Danjou <acid@debian.org>
1615 * Housekeeping (resynchronizing lists maintained elsewhere):
1616 - Add GFDL 1.3 to the common-licenses list.
1617 - Update the list of archive sections. (Closes: #519835)
1618 * Set the release date of the 3.8.1 upgrading-checklist entry.
1622 * The FHS is the "Filesystem Hierarchy Standard", regardless of our
1623 preferred spelling of "file system" elsewhere. Fix this and a nearby
1624 search-and-replace capitalisation bug.
1625 * Build-depend on texlive-latex-extra, which is needed by
1626 debiandoc2latexps and isn't included in texlive's dependencies.
1628 * Policy: State requirements for source package names
1629 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1630 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1631 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1633 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1636 * Add myself to Uploaders.
1637 * Update Standards-Version to 3.8.1 (no changes required).
1639 - use `dpkg --print-architecture' instead of obsolete form
1640 `dpkg --print-installation-architecture'.
1641 - fix a race condition while generating DEBIAN/md5sums.
1643 -- Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:42:53 +0200
1645 debian-policy (3.8.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1647 * Policy: Clarify what "sensible behavior" is for init scripts
1648 Wording: Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org>
1649 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1650 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1652 * Policy: Remove alternative changelog formats from main manual
1653 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1654 Seconded: Ben Pfaff <blp@cs.stanford.edu>
1655 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1657 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for changelog files
1658 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1659 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1660 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1662 * Policy: Mandate UTF-8 for control files
1663 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1664 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1665 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1667 * Policy: New option in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to avoid running test-suites
1668 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1669 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1670 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1672 * Policy: Expand expected capabilities for local in /bin/sh scripts
1673 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1674 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1675 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1677 * Policy: Clarify Essential definition and caution when adding to it
1678 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1679 Seconded: Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de>
1680 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1682 * Policy: Allow user mail spools to be mode 0600 or 0660
1683 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1684 Seconded: Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
1685 Seconded: Andrew McMillan <awm@debian.org>
1687 * Policy: Remove special handling of init scripts ending in .sh
1688 Wording: Kel Modderman <kel@otaku42.de>
1689 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1690 Seconded: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>
1692 * Policy: /var/run and /var/lock may be volatile
1693 Wording: Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>
1694 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1695 Seconded: Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>
1697 * Policy: debian/control allows comments starting with #
1698 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1699 Seconded: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1700 Seconded: Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>
1701 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1703 * Improve the documentation of maintainer script actions for diversions
1704 in the informative appendix to allow for addition of a new diversion
1705 on upgrade and handle error cases correctly. Thanks to Olivier Berger
1706 for the report and Raphaël Hertzog for the review. (Closes: #483418)
1707 * Clarify the meaning of architecture restrictions on build dependencies
1708 in the presence of alternatives. Thanks to Guillem Jover for the
1709 explanation and review and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort and Don Armstrong
1710 for wording review. (Closes: #163666)
1711 * Change the term "category" to "archive area" when referring to main,
1712 contrib, and non-free. This is closer to the wording of the Social
1713 Contract. (Closes: #473439)
1714 * Use <user>:<group> notation rather than <user>.<group> notation in
1715 multiple places. Thanks, Kurt Roeckx. (Closes: #488039)
1716 * Fix typo in 3.8.0.0 upgrading-checklist entry. Patch from Kobayashi
1717 Noritada. (Closes: #487701)
1718 * Mention debugging packages as an explicit example of packages with
1719 extra priority. Thanks, Charles Plessy. (Closes: #491985)
1720 * Clarify that translation is only required for user-visible debconf
1721 messages. Capitalize "Debian Configuration Management Specification"
1722 uniformly. Thanks, Julian Andres Klode. (Closes: #492624)
1723 * Add --wildcards to the sample tar command in appendix B.1 for
1724 extracting the package copyright file, adjusting for new tar option
1725 behavior. Thanks, Yan Morin. (Closes: #503685)
1726 * Reword the requirement that maintainer scripts exit with a zero
1727 status on success to avoid double-negatives.
1728 * Include the full name of each menu category rather than only the
1729 portion relative to the parent heading to be clearer in long category
1730 lists. Thanks, Christoph Berg. (Closes: #511804)
1731 * Build-Depend on texlive rather than tetex-extra. texlive appears to
1732 be sufficient for how Policy uses debiandoc-sgml and pulls in far
1734 * Remove the postinst and prerm scripts. doc-base registration is now
1735 handled by triggers and no longer required and removal of /usr/doc
1736 links was completed long ago.
1737 * Reference GPL-2 rather than the GPL symlink in debian/copyright.
1739 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 11 Mar 2009 20:50:52 -0700
1741 debian-policy (3.8.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
1743 * Don't attempt to register the non-existent debian-policy-process
1744 document. Thanks, Adrian von Bidder. (Closes: #484706)
1746 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Thu, 05 Jun 2008 13:13:01 -0700
1748 debian-policy (3.8.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1750 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] "debian/README.source" file for packages with
1751 non-trivial source", thanks to Wouter Verhelst, Jörg Sommer, Colin Watson,
1752 and Junichi Uekawa (Closes: #250202).
1753 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/02/2008] Manual page encoding", thanks to
1754 Colin Watson (Closes: #440420).
1755 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in
1756 DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, and Robert
1757 Millan (Closes: #209008).
1758 * Bug fix: "Please clarify splitting/syntax of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS", thanks to
1759 Loïc Minier, Peter Samuelson, Robert Millan, and Guillem Jover
1761 * Bug fix: "Documentation for Breaks in dpkg", thanks to Ian Jackson
1763 * Bug fix: "support for wrapped Uploaders should now be mandatory"
1765 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Add should not embed code from other packages",
1766 thanks to Neil McGovern, Colin Watson, Bill Allombert, Steve Langasek,
1767 Kurt Roeckx, and others (Closes: #392362).
1768 * Bug fix: "Homepage field in debian/control undocumented", thanks to
1769 Mario Iseli (Closes: #452105).
1770 * Bug fix: "Policy inconsistent with reality: base subsection no longer
1771 used", thanks to Magnus Holmgren, Bernd Zeimetz, and Colin Watson
1773 * Bug fix: "Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in
1774 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Barry Hawkins (Closes: #291460).
1775 * Bug fix: "[Amended] copyright should include notice if a package is
1776 not a part of Debian distribution", thanks to Taketoshi Sano
1778 * Bug fix: "scripts as configuration files: should vs. must", thanks to Frank
1779 Küster (Closes: #403391).
1780 * Bug fix: "debconf specification should allow underscores in template
1781 names", thanks to Colin Watson (Closes: #473761).
1782 * Bug fix: "clarify handling of run-time and compile-time support programs",
1783 thanks to Goswin Brederlow and Raphael Hertzog (Closes: #367984).
1784 * Policy: better document version ranking and empty Debian revisions
1785 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1786 Seconded: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org>
1787 Seconded: Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>
1788 Seconded: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>
1789 Closes: #186700, #458910
1790 * Policy: remove obsolete app-defaults and Xresources provisions
1791 Wording: Julien Cristau <jcristau@debian.org>
1792 Seconded: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org>
1794 * Bug fix: "Examples of dpkg frontends should mention apt now", thanks
1795 to Josh Triplett (Closes: #455602).
1796 * Bug fix: "Minor typos and wording suggestions", thanks to Michael
1797 Tautschnig (Closes: #422552).
1798 * Bug fix: "substvar reference moved from dpkg-source(1) to
1799 deb-substvars(5)", thanks to Ian Beckwith (Closes: #475731).
1800 * Policy: bugs fixed in NMUs are now closed rather than marked fixed
1801 Wording: Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> (thanks, Sandro Tosi)
1803 * Policy: C.1.4, C.1.8: minor typos
1804 Wording: Sandro Tosi <matrixhasu@gmail.com>
1806 * Remove the now-obsolete policy-process document.
1807 * Add an md5sums control file.
1808 * Add Vcs-Browser and Vcs-Git control fields.
1809 * Remove build system support for FHS 2.1 and FSSTND, mostly commented out.
1810 * Remove more temporary files created by the build.
1811 * Remove the FSSTND license from debian/copyright; no FSSTND files are
1812 currently part of policy.
1813 * Update FHS copyright dates in debian/copyright.
1814 * Standardize the spacing around headings in upgrading-checklist.html.
1815 * Remove old ChangeLog files and metadata headers in maintainer scripts
1818 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:53:27 -0700
1820 debian-policy (3.7.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
1822 * Bug fix: "FTBFS if built twice in a row" (Closes: #424212).
1823 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1824 to Nicolas François and Marc Brockschmidt (Closes: #382612).
1825 * Bug fix: "Please add 'local' to list of supra-POSIX features that
1826 /bin/sh can be expected to offer". Also add test -a/-o binary logical
1827 operators and change references from POSIX to SUSv3 (Closes: #294962).
1828 * Bug fix: "[Proposal] new Debian menu structure", thanks to Bill
1829 Allombert (Closes: #361418).
1830 * Bug fix: "typo: "must not be not world-writable"", thanks to Sam
1831 Hocevar (Closes: #392594).
1832 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: recommend binary:Version substvar instead",
1833 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #418444).
1834 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: dictd-dictionary", thanks to Tatsuya
1835 Kinoshita (Closes: #413575).
1836 * The virtual package in use is inet-superserver, not inetd-superserver.
1837 Adjust the virtual package list to match. Thanks, Tatsuya Kinoshita
1839 * Wrapped, cleaned up trailing whitespace, and alphabetized the list of
1841 * Bug fix: "Small spelling errors and erratic sentences in debian-policy",
1842 thanks to Michiel de Boer. (Closes: #435207).
1843 * Bug fix: "Source field of .changes files may contain a version number"
1845 * Bug fix: "822-date is deprecated (use date -R instead)" (Closes: #448035).
1846 * Bug fix: "5.6.17 (Urgency) should list emergency, maybe a normative
1847 list?" (Closes: #412634).
1848 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document support of package types in shlibs
1849 files", thanks to Franz Pop and Raphaël Hertzog (Closes: #363133).
1850 * Bug fix: "Introduce a requirement for internationalisation of debconf
1851 templates", thanks to Christian Perrier (Closes: #402975).
1852 * Bug fix: "GFDL is now in common-licenses". Also add the rest of the
1853 specific license versions and the GPLv3 (Closes: #420701).
1854 * Bug fix: "Virtual package for Japanese font packages
1855 (ttf-japanese-mincho and ttf-japanese-gothic)", thanks to Nobuhiro
1856 Iwamatsu (Closes: #440931).
1857 * Drop unsupported docbook-xml format from the doc-base file for the
1858 debconf specification.
1859 * Remove inactive uploaders and add Russ Allbery.
1860 * Update Standards-Version to 3.7.3 (no changes required).
1862 -- Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> Sun, 02 Dec 2007 22:33:55 -0800
1864 debian-policy (3.7.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
1866 * Bug fix: "clarify 12.3 Additional documentation", thanks to Peter
1867 Eisentraut (Closes: #367697).
1868 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/dependcy/dependency/", thanks to Justin
1869 Pryzby (Closes: #375508).
1870 * Bug fix: "various spelling mistakes", thanks to Nico Golde
1872 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo", thanks to Peter Samuelson
1874 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] maintainer scripts must not be
1875 world writable", thanks to Kari Pahula (Closes: #376438).
1876 * Bug fix: "policy-process: s/ a a / a /; s/peoples/people's/;
1877 s/intiated/initiated/; s/participattion the/participation in the/? add
1878 quotes; s/was a larger/a larger/?", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1880 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Include the GFDL in the set shipped in
1881 /usr/share/common-licenses", thanks to Adeodato Simó. However, it is
1882 premature to tell packages to use the common licenses file until we
1883 actually ship the license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ (Closes: #378386).
1884 * Bug fix: "circular dependencies, improved guarantees", thanks to Ian
1885 Jackson (Closes: #379630).
1886 * Bug fix: "section on invoke-rc.d doesn't make sense", thanks to Peter
1887 Eisentraut (Closes: #380692).
1888 * Bug fix: "policy: postinst doesn't document typical abort-remove
1889 case", thanks to Justin Pryzby. Removed all such comments. This is not
1890 the place to document such material. (Closes: #373212).
1891 * Bug fix: "use of "invoke-rc.d $PACKAGE stop || exit $?" in
1892 prerm scripts", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #370471).
1893 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Inconsistent requirements wrt bashisms",
1894 thanks to Frank Küster (Closes: #367531).
1895 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/with With/with /", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1897 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: "$RET" not "RET"", thanks to Justin Pryzby
1899 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Spelling error in chapter 9.1.1:
1900 exceptiions", thanks to Andreas Janssen (Closes: #388302).
1901 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document ~ behavior in version numbers", thanks
1902 to Jakob Bohm (Closes: #382612).
1903 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [ACCEPTED] Request for the 'stardict'",
1904 thanks to Andrew Lee (Closes: #385935).
1905 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] virtual package 'lzh-archiver' -- an LZH archiver
1906 package", thanks to Ying-Chun Liu (PaulLiu) (Closes: #387027).
1908 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:31:23 -0500
1910 debian-policy (3.7.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
1912 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: s/control are/&a/; s/stats/status/;
1913 s/and/an/; s/'/"/; s/rewind/unwind/; s/fact/& that/; s/like
1914 like/look like/;", thanks to Justin Pryzby (Closes: #372147).
1915 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor typo in footnote 53", thanks to Jordà
1916 Polo (Closes: #372497).
1917 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 9.1.1: "'..' character"
1918 should be "'.' character"", thanks to Matt Zagrabelny
1920 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: More typos in upgrading-checklist.txt",
1921 thanks to Kevin B. McCarty (Closes: #366466).
1922 * Bug fix: "typo: package remains in and "Installed' state", thanks
1923 to Sam Hocevar \(Debian packages\) (Closes: #369413).
1924 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Cleanup build-dependencies", thanks to Stefan
1925 Huehner (Closes: #366032).
1926 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: 2.2 should be named 'categories'", thanks to
1927 Thomas Weber (Closes: #369912).
1928 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: old postinst abort-upgrade, not new", thanks
1929 to Justin Pryzby. The fix was thanks to Margarita Manterola
1931 * Bug fix: "policy: please say which control fields can line-wrap",
1932 thanks to Peter Samuelson (Closes: #372731).
1933 * Bug fix: "debian/copyright should be mentioned in source section",
1934 thanks to Ian Jackson (Closes: #369011).
1935 * Bug fix: "GNU office not on Temple Place anymore", thanks to Dan
1936 Jacobson (Closes: #366889).
1938 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:18:19 -0500
1940 debian-policy (3.7.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
1942 * Revert the cgi-lib change.
1943 * Bug fix: "Clarification for difference between Build-Depends and
1944 Build-Depends-Indep (Section 7.6)", thanks to Christoph Berg
1945 Note that this is not part of policy, just an informative footnote.
1947 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in policy 5.6.3: semantic meaning",
1948 thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #365907).
1950 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 18:07:19 -0500
1952 debian-policy (3.7.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
1954 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] 11.9: document handling of directories permission
1955 when upgrading", thanks to Bill Allombert (Closes: #136318).
1956 * Bug fix: "[DISCUSS] documentation of the "-fPIC" constraint", thanks
1957 to Loïc Minier. Clarified when it may be reasonable to violate the standard
1958 directive that shared libraries must be compiled with -fPIC, and
1959 static libraries without, added the protocol to be followed when
1960 doing so. (Closes: #329762).
1961 * Bug fix: "Minor typo in upgrading checklist", thanks to David
1962 Weinehall (Closes: #364982).
1963 * Bug fix: "Typo in upgrading-checklist", thanks to David Weinehall
1965 * Bug fix: "typo in debian policy section 10.9.1", thanks to Miguel Gea
1966 Milvaques (Closes: #365058).
1967 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: The section 11.8.5 needs some
1968 clarifications", thanks to Robert Luberda (Closes: #365356).
1969 * Bug fix: "11.8.7: X11R7 puts headers in /usr/include/X11", thanks to
1970 Drew Parsons (Closes: #365510).
1971 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in policy-process:
1972 "Guideliens"", thanks to Lars Wirzenius (Closes: #360518).
1973 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: repeated word in section 10.4", thanks to
1974 Russ Allbery (Closes: #364985).
1975 * Bug fix: "typo in debian-policy", thanks to Miguel Gea Milvaques
1978 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 3 May 2006 11:17:42 -0500
1980 debian-policy (3.7.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
1982 * Bug fix: "[PENDING AMENDMENT 20/01/2000] Splitting cgi-bin", thanks to
1983 Brian White. (Closes: #32263).
1984 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] Should update to Filesystem
1985 Hierarchy Standard FHS 2.3", thanks to Tobias Burnus
1986 (Closes: #230217, #212434, #344158).
1987 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 11/04/2006] Permit multi-line fields in
1988 debian/control", thanks to John R. Daily. Mention that all fields,
1989 except the Uploaders, are supposed to be a single logical line, which
1990 may be spread over multiple physical lines (newline followed by space
1991 is elided). Also mention that anything parsing the control file must
1992 allow for a multi-line uploaders field. (Closes: #148194).
1993 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 12/04/2004] frown on programs in PATH with
1994 language extentions", thanks to Joey Hess. (Closes: #190753).
1995 * Bug fix: "init script stop example should use --oknodo", thanks to
1996 Matt Kraai. Removed the example entirely. (Closes: #346598).
1997 * Bug fix: "policy 12.5: Please recommend a sane practice WRT different
1998 gpl versions (was: Re: RFC/RFS: beef - a flexible BrainFuck
1999 interpreter)", thanks to Justin Pryzby. The subject leaves something
2000 to be desired, but polic should not attempt to enumerate all common
2001 licenses. (Closes: #355263).
2002 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Conflicting Architecture definitions", thanks
2003 to Hans Ulrich Niedermann. Punt to dpkg-architecture to providing
2004 legal architecture strings, since that's what is used by everyone
2005 anyway. The version in policy was wrong, but that s=does not seem to
2006 have hindered anyone, which indicates that this policy directive was
2007 uneeded. Now the dpkg-architecture list is deemed authoritative, which
2008 it is, but the format for the string is defined by policy, and the
2009 current list of architecture strings is in an informative foot note.
2011 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 06/04/2006] Make use of invoke-rc.d, if
2012 available, mandatory", thanks to Lars Wirzenius. (Closes: #361137).
2013 * Bug fix: "no longer current regarding X font paths", thanks to Joey
2014 Hess (Closes: #362247).
2015 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please prohibit circular dependencies, or
2016 mention that dependencies won't be respected during prerm remove",
2017 thanks to Justin Pryzby. Well, we did not prohibit circular
2018 dependencies. But we do now have a warning that In case of circular
2019 dependencies, since installation or removal order honoring the
2020 dependency order can't be established, dependency loops are broken at
2021 some random point, and some packages may not be able to rely on their
2022 dependencies being present when being installed or removed, depending
2023 on which side of the break of the circular dependcy loop they happen
2024 to be on. (Closes: #362975).
2025 * Bug fix: "8.6.4. Providing a `shlibs' file: s/should create/must
2026 provide/", thanks to Christoph Berg. Clarified the wording.
2028 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Chapter 6 - Package maintainer scripts:
2029 redundant info about exit status", thanks to Daniel Bonniot
2031 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Refers to upgrading-checklist.txt instead of
2032 upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks to Matt Kraai (Closes: #349775).
2033 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: dpkg-gencontrol now uses -isp by default",
2034 thanks to Guillem Jover (Closes: #359817).
2035 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] unclear recommendation for debconf w/
2036 dpkg-statoverride", thanks to Eduard Bloch (Closes: #199849).
2037 * debian-policy: please support Watch file as recommendation, thanks to
2038 Bluefuture (Closes: #342611).
2039 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSED] Mandate http servers to provide httpd-cgi as
2040 relevenat", thanks to Uwe Hermann. This is already supported by the
2041 http servers out there. (Closes: #117916).
2043 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:56:16 -0500
2045 debian-policy (3.6.2.2) unstable; urgency=low
2048 * Bug fix: "policy is out of date re tasks and tasksel", thanks to Joey
2049 Hess. Removed the section from policy. (Closes: #344310).
2050 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package cron-daemon",
2051 thanks to Steve Greenland (Closes: #257726).
2052 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: incorrect tar example deb manipulation",
2053 thanks to Bob Proulx (Closes: #224770).
2054 * Bug fix: "Probable typo in 10.1 install -s miss INSTALL =", thanks to
2055 Bill Allombert (Closes: #341992).
2056 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: postinst abort-remove (6.7) not present in
2057 summary (6.4)", thanks to Ferenc Wagner (Closes: #338493).
2058 * Bug fix: "UTF-8 footnote is out of date (pre-sarge)", thanks to Martin
2059 Michlmayr (Closes: #337539).
2060 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in perl-policy", thanks to Tibor Csögör
2062 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Outdated FSF postal address in Copyright
2063 Notice", thanks to Jean-Marc Ranger (Closes: #334819).
2064 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: §6.5 (3)(1): missing "Error
2065 unwind:" for "new-postrm abort-upgrade"", thanks to
2066 Henning Makholm (Closes: #321792).
2067 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typo in §5.6.3: co-maintaintainers", thanks
2068 to Henning Makholm (Closes: #321790).
2069 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: typos in sect 9.3.1: "ends .sh",
2070 "rather that"", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #343933).
2071 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Unclear wording of ldconfig requirements in
2072 section 8.1.1", thanks to Ben Finney (Closes: #318214).
2073 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in 8.6.2: ${shlib:Depends} must be
2074 ${shlibs:Depends}", thanks to Thijs Kinkhorst (Closes: #318147).
2075 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: gzipped fhs-2.3 documentation is corrupt",
2076 thanks to Gabor Gombas (Closes: #340189).
2077 * Bug fix: "Section 6.3 should reference 3.10.1", thanks to Marc 'HE'
2078 Brockschmidt (Closes: #326633).
2079 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: section 2.2 refers to no-longer existant
2080 non-US repository sections", thanks to Martin-Eric Racine
2083 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 25 Dec 2005 08:47:52 -0600
2085 debian-policy (3.6.2.1) unstable; urgency=low
2087 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Typo in upgrading-checklist.txt.gz", thanks
2088 to Romain Francoise. Added the missing /. (Closes: #314569).
2089 * Bug fix: "x-session-manager already in use, so please add to
2090 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Christopher Martin
2092 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED] SRFI 22 names for Scheme implementations", thanks
2093 to Jorgen Schaefer (Closes: #310113).
2094 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please add x-display-manager to
2095 virtual-package-names-list.txt", thanks to Jon Dowland (Closes: #294633).
2097 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2005 00:48:14 -0500
2099 debian-policy (3.6.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2102 * Bug fix: "policy 11.5.3 refers to using the menu package to register
2103 docs", thanks to Joey Hess (Closes: #222553).
2104 * Bug fix: "[PROPOSAL] Document Uploaders: field in policy", thanks to
2105 Andrew Pollock. Andreas Metzler provided the wording, though it was
2106 modified during inclusion. (Closes: #203145).
2107 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Minor grammatical correction in section 9.4",
2108 thanks to Eric Evans. I rejected the proposed change, instead I went
2109 over the whole policy document and removed all he/she/him/her
2110 constructs before the gender police jump all over me. (Closes: #273122).
2111 * Bug fix: "XSI:ism in prerm and postinst", thanks to David Weinehall
2113 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify section 12.7.", thanks to
2114 Adrian Bunk. Added a clarifying footnote that makes it clear that
2115 section 12.3 does not allow one to ignore section 12.7 (Closes: #276953).
2117 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: should not ship generated files in source
2118 archive, and should clean them from the tree", thanks to Branden
2119 Robinson (Closes: #284967).
2120 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Detailed description of maintainer script
2121 calls (Section 6.5) is incomplete", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz
2122 and Thomas Hood. What happens when error unwinding itself runs into
2123 problems is perhaps not discussed as completely as it should be.
2125 * Bug fix: "9.3.3.2 "command -v" example needs tweaking",
2126 thanks to Thomas Hood. Instead of the massively complex shenanigans
2127 suggested in the bug report, just use which. which lives in an
2128 essential package, so can be used in the preinst of packages.
2130 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: please clarify/loosen the policy on rewriting
2131 history", thanks to Frank Küster. Since this was not really a
2132 directive, but merely an expression of an opinion, moved it into an
2133 informative footnote. (Closes: #290270).
2134 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package request: mpd-client", thanks
2135 to Eric Wong (Closes: #270020).
2136 * Bug fix: "[ACCEPTED 2005/02/04]: "libexec", or use of "lib" for
2137 binaries in lib* packages", thanks to Junichi Uekawa
2139 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: virtual package: flexmem", thanks to Bartosz
2140 Fenski aka fEnIo (Closes: #239359).
2141 * Bug fix: "Please clarify Section 2.5. required <-> essential",
2142 thanks to Adrian Bunk. Clarified the section. (Closes: #216104).
2143 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Please remove virtual package
2144 aspell-dictionary", thanks to Brian Nelson (Closes: #295939).
2145 * Bug fix: "[AMENDMENT 18/02/2002] Where to place web-accessible
2146 images", thanks to Tollef Fog Heen (Closes: #89867).
2147 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: erroneous enumeration in prebuilt policy.*
2148 files", thanks to Nikolaus Schulz. I am hoping that this shall go away
2149 when we rebuild. (Closes: #286553).
2150 * Bug fix: "please make names of alternate versions links", thanks to
2151 Robert Cheramy. Added HTTPPATH elements that should provide the URL's
2152 as well as the hyperlinks. (Closes: #308886).
2153 * Bug fix: "www.debian.org: Misspelling in Policy Manual", thanks to
2154 Roberto C. Sanchez Various spelling errors were also corrected in a
2155 spell check run. (Closes: #309162).
2157 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 16 Jun 2005 20:27:17 -0500
2159 debian-policy (3.6.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2162 * [AMENDMENT 15/09/2003] Move documentation of behavior of ancient dpkg
2163 in 6.6 to a footnote. closes: Bug#209855
2164 * Fix the outdated link for the mime subpolicy. closes: Bug#212153
2165 * Fix a missing comma in the list of sections closes: Bug#215524
2166 * Fix spelling of sysv-rc closes: Bug#215558
2167 * [AMENDMENT 28/03/2004] ${perl:Depends} documentation
2168 incomplete. Added an informative foot note stating that dependencies
2169 caused by versioned uses and on separately packaged modules are not
2170 included in this variable and must be explicitly included.
2172 * Clarified that section 3.2.1 refers to the date based postion of the
2173 version number, if not already clear from the context. This allows
2174 developers leeway in selecting date based version numbers for their
2175 packages, without loosing the advantages of the format specified in
2176 this section. closes: Bug#248618
2177 * Bug fix: "Broken link to virtual-package-names-list.txt in section
2178 3.6", thanks to Carlos O'Donell (Closes: #248786).
2179 * Bug fix: "Broken link to debconf_specification.txt.gz in section
2180 3.10.1 of the Debian Policy manual.", thanks to Carlos O'Donell and
2181 Scott C.MacCallum <scm@madoshi.com> (Closes: #248788, 247761).
2182 * Bug fix: "missing commas in subsections list", thanks to Filippo
2183 Giunchedi (Closes: #236614).
2184 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: policy-process, broken URL", thanks to Manoj
2185 Srivastava (Closes: #244969).
2186 * Bug fix: "bad reference to debconf-devel(8) has to be (7)", thanks to
2187 Kevin Price (Closes: #247143).
2188 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: Small wording change", thanks to Mike Paul
2190 * Bug fix: "debian-policy: broken URL: CSH Programming Considered
2191 Harmful", thanks to Steven Augart (Closes: #253324).
2192 * Bug fix: "New virtual package: cron-daemon", thanks to Adam Byrtek
2195 * Fixed detection of invoke-rc.d's existence, closes: #218530.
2196 * Generalized the dpkg-shlibdeps example and added a current example in a
2197 footnote, set proper section ids and linked the d-sd section better,
2199 * Clarified the section about the Architecture field and added footnotes
2200 to indicate recommended actions, closes: #51832.
2201 * Updated PGP references, closes: #68827.
2202 * Linked f-Format in the list of fields of the .dsc file, not mandatory
2203 according to my skimming of dpkg-source, closes: #70742.
2204 * Fixed the command line required to output the copyright file,
2206 * Removed the long obsolete notion of specific directory names within
2207 source tarballs, closes: #79210.
2209 * sgml-dtd was moved, fix FTBFS. Closes: #241683
2210 * fix link to WM specification. Closes: #235484
2211 * manpage -> man page. Closes: #232364, #238958
2212 * language adjustment. Closes: #227762
2213 * added virtual packages stardict-dictionary, inetd-superserver.
2214 Closes: #185943, #237049
2216 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 25 Jun 2004 16:07:38 -0500
2218 debian-policy (3.6.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2221 * Removed obsolete section on obsolete constructs and libraries,
2224 * Change reference to the debconf introduction from kitenet to a debian
2225 hosted server. closes: Bug#187297
2226 * Added myspell-dictionary to the virtual packages list closes: Bug#203728
2227 * Fix the restart action in the init.d/bind example; it now uses
2228 --oknodo so that the action does not fail when the service is not
2229 running. closes: Bug#187250
2230 * invoke-rc.d and update-rc.d are now in the sysv-rc package instead of
2231 the sysvinit package. Fixed a reference in policy. closes: Bug#200440
2232 * Note that postinst abort-remove is called if there is an error while
2233 removing the package. closes: Bug#188030
2234 * [AMENDMENT 2003/08/03] Make Debconf the standard for prompting the
2235 user closes: Bug#176506
2237 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 19 Aug 2003 07:28:10 -0500
2239 debian-policy (3.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
2242 * Restructured Policy, closes: #189306.
2243 + Many packaging manual appendices that were integrated into policy
2244 sections are now empty, and replaced with links to the Policy.
2245 In particular, the appendices that included the list of control
2246 fields were updated (new fields like Closes, Changed-By were added)
2247 and the list of fields for each of control, .changes and .dsc files
2248 is now in Policy, and they're marked mandatory, recommended or
2249 optional based on the current practice and the behaviour of the
2250 deb-building toolchain.
2251 + Elimination of needlessly deep section levels, primarily in the
2252 chapter Debian Archive, from which two new chapters were split out,
2253 Binary packages and Source packages. What remained was reordered
2254 properly, that is, some sect1s became sects etc.
2255 + Several sections that were redundant, crufty or simply not designed
2256 with any sort of vision, were rearranged according to the formula that
2257 everything should be either in the same place or properly interlinked.
2258 Some things remained split up between different chapters when they
2259 talked about different aspects of files: their content, their syntax,
2260 and their placement in the file system. In particular, see the new
2261 sections about changelog files.
2263 * Added Games/Simulation to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194974
2264 * Added Apps/Education to menu subpolicy closes: Bug#194972
2265 * [ACCEPTED]: Debian changelogs should be UTF-8 encoded. Changed the
2266 wording from a should to a may; since a should would make an unknown
2267 number of packages insta buggy. A reuest makes all these wishlist
2268 bugs; we can raise the severity in a later version of policy.
2270 * Added LANG=C before the debiandoc2X invocations, this ensures that the
2271 resulting documents do not get converted to the locale on the building
2272 machine. This answers some of the issues mentioned in Bug#175064
2273 * [AMENDMENT 02/05/2003] encourage packagers to systematically prevent
2274 mis-linked libraries closes: Bug#191369
2275 * [AMENDMENT 6/6/2003] build-depends-indep need not be satisfied
2276 during clean target. closes: Bug#191411, Bug#178809
2277 * Fixed the fact that section 7.5.1 does not describe dpkg's true
2278 behavior. Now added a footnote that explains that replaces is a one
2279 way relationship. closes: Bug#183195
2280 * Could no longer find the misspelling "seciton", thus this must have
2281 been fixed in a previous change in the manual. closes: Bug#193903
2282 * Fixed an incorect /usr/share/common-licences/GPL reference, ensured a
2283 consistent spelling across the manuals. closes: Bug#189516
2284 * Removed an extraneous > in menu policy. closes: Bug#187615
2285 * Fixed typos, and part of the report that was deemed valid; the other
2286 changes suggested were incorrect, or style issues. closes: Bug#169744
2287 * updated the section numbers in the upgrading checklist
2288 for the restructuring
2290 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Wed, 9 Jul 2003 18:01:35 +0200
2292 debian-policy (3.5.10.0) unstable; urgency=low
2295 * Fixed date, typos and added indentation in the virtual packages list,
2297 * Changed the formatting of the link to the authors section to avoid
2298 confusion in the debiandoc2txt output, closes: #185985.
2299 * Fixed various typos, closes: #189274, #187418, #187422, #189654.
2300 * Removed broken link to csh.whynot on CPAN, closes: #187567.
2301 * Updated archive section list, closes: #187420.
2302 * Stop attaching byhand tarballs, cf. bug #184082.
2304 * Clarify x-terminal-emulator virtual package eligibility, in an
2305 extention to an informative footnote. closes: Bug#165063
2306 * Add 40 points, not 20, when the window manager is compliant with "The
2307 Window Manager Specification Project". closes: Bug#167004
2308 * Fixed reference to the debconf URL (we can change the URL as it
2309 changes again, and I don't think any additional load would accrue
2310 since people using the old URL were redirected to auric anyway).
2312 * Inserted the word only in the package name section. closes: Bug#184368
2313 * Amended the section about Prompting in maintainer scripts. Added a
2314 footnote (quoting from the Jargon File) to explain what "by hand"
2315 means in a computer context. closes: Bug#184507
2317 -- Josip Rodin <joy-packages@debian.org> Sat, 10 May 2003 19:13:50 +0200
2319 debian-policy (3.5.9.0) unstable; urgency=low
2322 * Added missing bits of information about Description: fields from
2323 the old Packaging manual, closes: #172022
2324 * Fixed a stale reference to the "base system maintainer" to
2325 base-passwd maintainer, closes: #174927
2326 * Fixed an accidental change from /usr/share/package to /usr/share/doc in
2327 the paragraph about not depending on /usr/share/doc/package,
2329 * Fixed several errors reported by Guenther Palfinger, with some help from
2330 Richard Braakman, closes: #177205, #177206, #177207, #177208, #177209
2331 * Added versions to links and docbook-xml source-dependencies, hopefully
2332 fixes the bug with potato, and even if it doesn't, I don't care :)
2334 * Fixed typos in the debconf spec noticed by Jay Bonci, closes: #178455
2335 * Clarified that using Build-Depends for build-dependencies is not a "may"
2336 but a "should", added proper linking among various sections dealing with
2337 the dependencies so that there is no confusion, closes: #87510
2338 If any one of those poor, misguided people ;) still thinks that the
2339 requirement should be a "must" (in _our_ meaning, not RFC "MUST"),
2340 please file a new bug, as it's quite unproductive to have to sift
2341 through a 152-page bug log which mostly goes back-and-forth with
2342 explanations how policy should work, occasionally sprinkled with
2343 offtopic stuff, too.
2344 * When asked to restart a service that isn't already running, the init
2345 script should start it, closes: #60979
2346 * Rephrased section on configuration files to remove confusing use of
2347 "should", closes: #170019
2348 * Rearranged the shared library information properly, closes: #109166
2349 This change also centralizes the info on how to ship static libraries
2350 in one place (hopefully not too ambiguous), closes: #93975
2351 * Allow examples to be placed in /usr/share/doc/package/ in packages
2352 that are meant to provide examples, closes: #69864
2353 * Removed several references to the Policy manual etc in the stuff
2354 imported from old packaging manual, closes: #181923
2355 * Fixed too greedy wildcard match in the logrotate example,
2358 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@acm.org> Fri, 7 Mar 2003 12:35:16 -0600
2360 debian-policy (3.5.8.0) unstable; urgency=low
2363 * Added example for why one may call ldconfig anywhere in the
2364 postsint. closes: Bug#120585
2365 * Add the modifications about base system, as opposed to the soon to be
2366 obsolete base section (I assume it is) closes: Bug#53582
2367 * Rearranged the virtual packages list. closes: Bug#72980
2368 * This is basically an attempt to ratify the current practice of using
2369 debhelper in the clean target. Currently, policy does not require
2370 debhelper to be installed when the clean target is run, even though it
2371 is in the build-depends field. This was a simple oversight.
2373 * No longer depend on fileutils. closes: Bug#167425
2374 * Added the Apps/Science menu section closes: Bug#162812
2375 * Applied text patch from Joey Hess to the debconf spec simply make it
2376 conform to the reality of how some things work now. This is part of an
2377 effort to make debconf and cdebconf better substitutes for each
2378 other. Since it was not an XML patch, no special markup is present in
2379 the new content, except where I made guesses. closes: Bug#160776
2380 * Clarify section 13.3. closes: Bug#160248
2381 * Removed the undocumented(7) hack requirement. closes: Bug#39830
2383 * Removed the obsolete notion of documenting changes within the copyright
2384 file, closes: Bug#65764
2386 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Fri, 15 Nov 2002 00:36:54 -0600
2388 debian-policy (3.5.7.1) unstable; urgency=low
2390 * Fix the debconf spec to (postinst -> postrm) closes: Bug#129375, Bug#160839
2391 * Fix update-rc.d example, mention that changing run-levels or priority
2392 may require removing and re-creating the symbolic links. closes: Bug#149709
2393 * Fix the groff and col -b interaction closes: Bug#164755
2394 * Added section numbers to upgrading checklist closes: Bug#160914
2395 * Fixed typo KB_Backspace -> KB_BackSpace
2396 * Clarify wording in the section about ChangeLog files to allow for
2397 symbolic links in /usr/share/doc/ directory (was already allowed in a
2398 previous section of policy 13.6) closes: Bug#111137
2399 * Removed a spurious + from text. closes: Bug#160908
2400 * Added a note in the debconf spec to consult debconf-devel(8) for
2401 details. closes: Bug#133030
2402 * Added a reference to the local copy of the FHS. closes: Bug#122928
2403 * Updated reference to ash (dash). This implements the non controversial
2404 parts of Bug#161455.
2406 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 26 Oct 2002 13:12:49 -0500
2408 debian-policy (3.5.7.0) unstable; urgency=low
2410 * Fixed some broken hrefs in links
2411 * No longer use local debiandoc stuff (it's been fixed upstream)
2412 * Added table of contents (index.html) to policy-process.sgml, fixing
2413 the new error reported to bug #137521 closes: Bug#137521
2414 * Fixed a couple of typos closes: Bug#139832
2415 * Ran through the policy document looking for long instances of text in
2416 the <tt> tag, and changed it to <file> where appropriate. This is
2417 since the <file> tag can handle line breaking, but the <t> flag does
2418 not. closes: Bug#139820
2419 * Change the requirement to ask permission to make devices to merely
2420 requiring a notification. closes: Bug#106280
2421 * Added a build dependson docbook utils. closes: Bug#154660
2422 * Since this is being built with a newer version of debiandoc-sgml, this
2423 should display better with lynx. closes: Bug#153704
2424 * Add in the crypto-in-main amendment. closes: Bug#81852, Bug#144411
2425 * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a
2426 special field in the control file (and these should be added only
2427 after discussion on the mailing lists) closes: Bug#97755
2428 * Clarify wording in the section for packages providing fonts.
2430 * Fix the doc base file for policy process closes: Bug#137521, Bug#147554
2432 * using set -e is not dubious advice. Rejecting this. closes: Bug#139969
2433 * Make the directory one is building under ./debian/ be up to the
2434 maintainer, instead of mandating ./debian/tmp/ closes: Bug#144297
2435 * Add a standards version closes: Bug#145067
2436 * Added virtual package debconf-2.0 closes: Bug#151328
2437 * Added The Window Manager Specification Project support to the default
2438 window manager selection mechanism closes: Bug#155680
2439 * The confusion between /var/mail and /var/spool/mail seems to have been
2440 disambiguated. closes: Bug#114949
2441 * Mention the new Build-Depend-Indep semantic and the new
2442 build-indep/build-arch rules in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#116134
2443 * Made package naming rules in policy consistent. I did not eliminate
2444 the duplication, since I don't want to make major changes to the flow,
2445 since we are supposed to be re-writing policy anyway. closes: Bug#131441
2446 * Clarified wording about cases where we may have concrete and virtual
2447 packages with the same name. closes: Bug#134977
2448 * Fixed typo 'be be' closes: Bug#138681
2449 * Fixed typo in appendix G -- example of diversion closes: Bug#140697
2450 * fix typo shlib: -> shlibs: closes: Bug#141903
2451 * Provide a link between two sections dealing with virtual packages.
2453 * Fixed xtifr's email address in the menu policy closes: Bug#152965
2454 * Allow shared library names to be have a hyphen between library name
2455 and soversion if the library name ends in a number. closes: Bug#100472
2456 * Permit some libraries to only install static libs. closes: Bug#100346
2457 * Remove the debug option, add noopt closes: Bug#157131, Bug#113525
2458 * provide dhcp-client virtual package. closes: Bug#154142
2459 * We do not need bits in policy that ``should not be enforced''.
2461 * We are building this with the latest debianndoc-sgml. closes: Bug#146703
2462 * Finish incorporating all of the accepted changes in Bug#72335, and
2463 this closes: Bug#141307, Bug#156546
2464 * Added virtual package aspell-dictionary closes: Bug#139067
2465 * Added virtual package radius-server closes: Bug#118608
2466 * Clarifying manual pages is not a policy issue. closes: Bug#112828
2467 * Corrected the ldconfig handling instructions. closes: Bug#111025
2468 * Not a policy issue. closes: Bug#106826
2469 * Removed the /usr/doc/ symlink clause. closes: Bug#47298, Bug#69311
2471 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 31 Aug 2002 02:18:02 -0500
2473 debian-policy (3.5.6.1) unstable; urgency=low
2475 * Set the cotact information for the FHS contact, and add mention of the
2476 FHS mailing list. closes: Bug#137172
2477 * ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/package-developer/ certainly seems to
2478 exist, and does contain the menu policy. closes: Bug#110711, Bug#121977
2479 * Added java related virtual packages closes: Bug#110713
2480 * Fixed confusion in appar4ently contradictory wording about /etc/init.d
2481 scripts: clarified to emphasize that the init.d files _are_
2482 configuration files, and they _must_ have local changes preserved,
2483 either (if they are present in the .deb) by marking them as conffiles
2484 or, if they do not exist in the .deb file, by any other means. This
2485 does not change any requirements, and should have no affect on any
2486 conformant packages. closes: Bug#132621
2487 * Fixed error in doc-base file closes: Bug#137521
2488 * fixed typo in virtual packages list closes: Bug#110446
2489 * Fixed typo in upgrading checklist. closes: Bug#110705
2490 * Fixed typo (dependencies) in the policy closes: Bug#122931
2491 * Fixed grammar errors in the policy closes: Bug#126131
2492 * While I am cleaning out bugs, these are old and the reporter no longer
2493 wnats to pursue them, and there was never a consensus reached. If
2494 there is interest, new bugs can be filed. closes: Bug#51411, Bug#51412
2495 * Added the virtual package dict-client closes: Bug#122996
2496 * Added the virtual package foomatic-data closes: Bug#123570
2497 * Added the virtual packages {x-}audio-mixer closes: Bug#131781
2499 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:16:53 -0600
2501 debian-policy (3.5.6.0) unstable; urgency=low
2503 * Change footnote about urgency values to the now-current list: low,
2504 medium, high, emergency.
2505 * Correct note about /etc/default files being conffiles/config files,
2506 which I mucked up (sorry Joey) [10.3.2]
2507 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Downgrade emacs/tex to optional
2508 closes: Bug#102204, Bug#53849
2509 * [AMENDMENT 2001/06/26] Next stage in usr/doc -> usr/share/doc transition
2512 * [AMENDMENT 09/06/2001] Clarifying FHS policy closes: Bug#98291, Bug#60461
2513 * Spelling correction closes: Bug#105625
2514 * [AMMENDMENT 28/06/2001] Restrict http access to /usr/share/doc
2516 * [AMENDMENT 23/5/2001] Optional build-arch and build-indep targets for
2517 debian/rules closes: Bug#72335
2518 * The old packaging manual is included in the policy document as an
2519 informative appendix. It is not part of Debian Technical Policy, and
2520 its presence is a temporary measure until dpkg documentation includes
2521 the information provided. closes: Bug#105535
2522 * Added information about optional blank lines in the chagelog format.
2525 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 24 Jul 2001 21:43:22 -0500
2527 debian-policy (3.5.5.0) unstable; urgency=low
2529 * Fixed up incorrect entries in the changelog (there was an erroneous
2530 3.5.0.1 revision which never happened; it has now been correctly
2531 merged with the 3.5.3.0 changelog entry)
2532 * Add section numbers to upgrading-checklist for all revisions from
2534 * Complete rewrite (and renumbering) of sections 9.1 and 9,2
2535 * This time *really* include the HTML version of the FHS
2536 * Added doc-base support for all of the HTML files
2537 * Added several more files to the byhand list and rewrote chunks of
2538 debian/rules to do this
2539 * Add patched versions of debiandoc-sgml stuff to source package until
2540 patches are incorporated upstream
2541 * Versioned Build-Depend on debiandoc-sgml for fixed Text.pm
2542 * Improved mkdir example in 10.1.2 closes: Bug#92744
2543 * Made the "where examples live" entry in the upgrading-checklist
2544 clearer (add "for use by scripts")
2545 * Add a dpkg-statoverride description section closes: Bug#89473
2546 * Fix the ldconfig usage description (remove "only if")
2548 * Clarification of package priority issues vis-a-vis the X Windows
2549 system closes: Bug#91249
2550 * Enhanced x-terminal-emulator policy closes: Bug#91252
2551 * Minor changes to X app-defaults policy closes: Bug#91259
2552 * Clarification of X policy in respect to FHS closes: Bug#91260
2553 * OpenMotif has the same rules as OSF/Motif closes: Bug#91261
2554 * The X Font policy rewrite closes: Bug#91257
2555 * The "man" program is no longer guaranteed to read header information
2556 to find alternative manpage names closes: Bug#94995
2557 * Correction to meaning of Standards-Version closes: Bug#97072
2558 * Split section 12.8 (X Window System) into subsections for readability
2559 * Plug-ins != shared libraries (at last) closes: Bug#66023
2560 * Add packaging manual remnants to policy document as appendices, and
2561 mention this in control file closes: Bug#95906
2562 * Clarification in Perl policy closes: Bug#98712
2564 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Fri, 1 Jun 2001 10:37:52 +0100
2566 debian-policy (3.5.4.0) unstable; urgency=low
2568 * [ACCEPTED 2/4/01] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail closes: Bug#42052
2569 * [AMENDMENT 26/04/2001] include Perl Policy closes: Bug#83977
2570 * Also incorporates all the improvements that Julian has made to to the
2571 grammar and flow of the policy manual. The following are mostly
2573 * Removed reference to non-extant dpkg documentation
2574 * Fixed the confusing self referential language. closes: Bug#85503
2575 * Correct ambiguous kanguage about declaring build dependencies.
2577 * Improved the woding of the footnote about shlibdeps.
2580 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:30:21 -0500
2582 debian-policy (3.5.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
2584 * Removed recommendation on packaging-manual
2585 closes: Bug#86507, #93620, #93705
2586 * Also now Conflicts and Replaces packaging-manual
2587 * Remove FSSTND from binary package, although retain it in the source
2588 package for the time being
2589 * Get the version.ent non-compression thingy right this time!
2590 * Also install FHS stuff byhand (as requested by webmasters)
2591 * Corrected GPL name and location closes: Bug#88788, #93047
2592 * Correct bug severities closes: Bug#91276
2593 * Correct typos etc. in policy-process
2594 * Rename all .text files as .txt
2595 * Fixed the "to to" typo in policy closes: Bug#87007
2596 * Changed packaging manual ==> dpkg documentation closes: Bug#88651
2597 * [ACCEPTED 14/03/2001] Deprecate confusing closes: Bug#87828
2598 Build-Depends arch syntax
2599 * [AMENDMENT 29/03/2001] Clarification of example closes: Bug#87711
2601 * Undo all renaming to text, since the change had not been propogated to
2602 the rules file, which broke badly. This shall have to wait for a later
2604 * Richard Braakman and Michael Dorman have expressed their resignation
2605 from policy maintenance duties.
2606 * fixed the date thinko in upgrading checklist. Thanks to Sébastien
2607 Montagne <sebastien.montagne@netcourrier.com> closes: Bug#84236
2609 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 15 Apr 2001 13:36:19 -0500
2611 debian-policy (3.5.2.0) unstable; urgency=low
2613 * Add XFree86 app-defaults ammendment closes: Bug#83069
2615 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:11:49 +0000
2617 debian-policy (3.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2619 * Removed deprecated virtual package names closes: Bug#84641
2620 * Changed rmdir postrm example (suggestion on -policy list)
2621 * Removed Richard Braakman from list of maintainers at his request
2622 * Corrected typos and grammatical errors found by Sean Perry
2623 closes: Bug#85501, #85504, #85505, #85506
2624 closes: Bug#85508, #85510, #85511, #85514
2625 closes: Bug#84631, #84636, #85497, #85982
2626 closes: Bug#85986, #85993, #86001
2627 * No longer include the old proposal document closes: Bug#84079
2628 * Update footnote about dpkg-shlibdeps now that it uses objdump; bump up
2629 minor version number for this
2630 * Updated dpkg-shlibdeps example to use up-to-date package names (and
2631 correct dpkg-shlibdeps command line syntax)
2632 * Clarify error conditions for package installation
2633 (Bug#61801 from packaging-manual)
2634 * Add the "main" section of each distribution (got left out by
2635 accident!) (Bug#64304, #75955 from packaging-manual)
2636 * Clean version numbering string (Bug#73064 from packaging-manual)
2637 * Install HTML version of FHS closes: Bug#83487
2638 * Removed bashism from debian/rules
2640 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 15 Feb 2001 12:13:00 +0000
2642 debian-policy (3.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2644 * There have been numerous changes since the last major change, and
2645 peole have had tiome now to review the recent changes, so I am
2646 updating the policy minor version to reflect the quantity and
2647 magnitude of changes since 3.2.1
2648 * More spelling corrections, thanks to "Christian T. Steigies"
2650 * Added mention of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS in upgrading checklist.
2652 * Fixed some typos. closes: Bug#83960
2653 * Policy now mentions preinst scripts. closes: Bug#80342
2654 * [AMENDMENT 2000/12/26] allow/document use of Debian Configuration
2655 management system (debconf) closes: Bug#80347
2656 * Yet more typo fixes closes: Bug#82743
2657 * Document the fact that X font utilities have moved to the package
2658 xutils closes: Bug#82966
2659 * Fixed the date in the virtual package list closes: Bug#83438
2660 * Cleaned up some ephemeral informative foornotes of the polic. Thanks
2661 to Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> closes: Bug#83065
2662 * Corrected reference to the mime policy. closes: Bug#79891
2663 * Corrected reference to the menu policy. closes: Bug#75925
2664 * Added a note to the effect that the example make snippet used to
2665 illustrate the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable is merely
2666 informative, and expanded the example to dismiss any confusion about
2667 potential failure due to accidentally trying to strip scripts.
2670 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 28 Jan 2001 21:59:16 -0600
2672 debian-policy (3.2.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2674 * The minimal change in version number is so that people can test and
2675 root out the bugs in this document before we make everyone change to
2677 * Document the Enhances relationship
2678 * Removed the restriction that one, and exactly one, person must
2679 maintain a package. closes: Bug#51879
2680 * Fixed a typo, and added the nogroup name, in uid/gid section of
2681 policy. closes: Bug#53496
2682 * Fixed a misstatement in policy about not needing to depend on packages
2683 in the base system (not true -- the Essential tag is significant)
2685 * Clarified update-rc.d stuff closes: Bug#55048
2687 * We have already included the material for shlibdep changes, and most
2688 of this is not relevant to policy anyway. closes: Bug#55730
2689 * makedev--> MAKEDEV closes: Bug#57154
2690 * Added restrictions on the files in /usr/share/doc/
2692 * Changed location of a paragraph about copyright files into the section
2693 that deals with copyright files. closes: Bug#65765
2694 * init script configuration variables closes: Bug#66912
2695 * Clarifed language about packages sharing a conffile need to be marked
2696 as conflicting closes: Bug#76028
2698 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:43:58 -0600
2700 debian-policy (3.2.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2702 * Don't compress version.ent in the doc directory (it gets bigger!)
2703 * Incorporate the packaging manual into the policy document. The minimal
2704 change in version number is because I suspect that this version is
2706 closes: Bug#62943, Bug#72949
2707 * Fixed typo in menu-policy. closes: Bug#70442
2708 * Fixed typo in policy manual closes: Bug#70634, Bug#70643
2709 * Removed extraneous > from policy closes: Bug#77645
2710 * Fixed two typos in upgrading checklist closes: Bug#78809, Bug#78822
2711 * Fixed spelling of utility closes: Bug#82458
2712 * [ACCEPTED 2000/09/08] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into
2713 non-US/{main,contrib} closes: Bug#69229
2714 * Added rsh-server and telnet server to the virtual packages list
2716 * Fixed outdated references to the FHS. closes: Bug#77650
2718 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jan 2001 23:53:31 -0600
2720 debian-policy (3.2.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2722 * [AMENDMENT 15/01/2000] revision of the "to build with X support or
2723 not" policy. closes: Bug#53759
2724 * [ACCEPTED 2000/06/06] Must/Should/May in policy This is only a
2725 clarifying change, and was not intended to change the intent of
2726 policy. closes: Bug#64437
2727 * [ACCEPTED 03/05/2000] About the use of conffiles. closes: Bug#61308
2728 * [AMENDMENT 10/05/2000] s/mail\.mail/root\.mail/ closes: Bug#62668
2729 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] Update for new non-US layout closes: Bug#62946
2730 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/debian-devel/debian-legal/ closes: Bug#62947
2731 * [ACCEPTED 04/05/2000] s/bash/base-files/ closes: Bug#62948
2732 * Typo: 1744s/tty/ttyS/ closes: Bug#64516
2733 * proposal for mp3-encoder virtual package closes: Bug#64004
2734 * proposal for mp3-decoder virtual package closes: Bug#64006
2735 * new virtual package time-daemon closes: Bug#69031
2736 * [PATCH] typos in menu-policy.sgml closes: Bug#69424
2737 * [PATCH] typos and awkwardness in policy.sgml closes: Bug#69426
2738 * the example for using nostrip in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS is
2739 incorrect. closes: Bug#69487
2740 * [PATCH] more corrections closes: Bug#69670
2741 * [AMENDMENT 26/10/99] Amend non-free definition closes: Bug#46522
2742 * [AMMENDMENT 29/10/99] /bin/sh needs echo -n closes: Bug#48247
2743 * [AMENDMENT 1999/11/23] Clarify meaning of Essential: yes
2745 * [ACCEPTED] Request for new virtual packages: rsh-client and
2746 telnet-client closes: Bug#58759
2748 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 24 Aug 2000 02:06:30 -0500
2750 debian-policy (3.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2752 * Fixed bugs in debian-policy package:
2753 * We have had doc-base support for a while now. closes: Bug#15709
2754 * packaging manual: Added additional clarification on dpkg
2755 behaviour. closes: Bug#17369
2756 * [PROPOSAL] Do not make hardlinks to conffiles closes: Bug#22935
2757 * [PROPOSED]: clarification needed about diversions.
2758 fixed usage for dpkg-divert closes: Bug#29522
2759 * [OLD PROPOSAL] debian-policy has an unclear statement
2760 on dependancies and priorities closes: Bug#39398
2761 * [ACCEPTED 10/26/99] changelog.html.gz sanitization. closes: Bug#40934
2762 * [AMENDED 07/09/1999] policy on -g, a proposal closes: Bug#43787
2763 * Fixed missing </chapt> tag. closes: Bug#51091
2764 * Correct typo in section 2.3.5 closes: Bug#52225
2765 * Documented that the library before the symlink hack
2766 (which dependend on file system specific kinks to work)
2767 is no longer required by newer versions of dpkg. closes: Bug#53405
2768 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for usage of "xserver"
2769 alternative closes: Bug#53755
2770 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] additions to virtual package
2771 list closes: Bug#53756
2772 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-terminal-emulator"
2773 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53757
2774 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for "x-window-manager"
2775 virtual package and alternative closes: Bug#53758
2776 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of X application-defaults
2777 policy closes: Bug#53760
2778 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] revision of the Motif/LessTif
2779 policy closes: Bug#53761
2780 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] applying the FHS to packages
2781 that use X closes: Bug#53762
2782 * [ACCEPTED 02/01/2000] policy for X font packages closes: Bug#53763
2783 * Moved the documents into the Debian/ section, since
2784 that is where they belong, really. closes: Bug#54777
2785 * Fixed the ftp location in the manuals. closes: Bug#56407
2786 * Fixed missing urlname entity in the sgml docs (where
2787 was it defined before anyway?) closes: Bug#56692
2788 * Fixed bugs in packaging-manual package:
2789 * Fixed typo where dpkg-genchanges was used instead of
2790 dpkg-gencontrol. closes: Bug#58771
2792 * Added policy-process to document current procedures.
2793 * Added a dependency on fileutiles >=4.0, since the package would fail
2794 to install with older fileutils.
2795 * Installed FHS version 2.1
2796 * Policy recommends packaging manual and vice versa
2797 * Added FHS details to copyright file
2798 * Updaed the upgrade checklist. Minor changes to the ./debian/rules
2800 * Added footnotes in the packaging manual warning about the upcoming
2801 dpkg-shlibdeps change as in Bug#55730
2803 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:43:02 -0500
2805 debian-policy (3.1.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
2807 * Fixed an upgrade bug when /usr/doc happens to be a symlink, and does
2808 not point to /usr/share/doc. A couple of people were bitten by this.
2810 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 28 Feb 2000 22:27:05 -0600
2812 debian-policy (3.1.1.2) unstable; urgency=low
2814 * Correct missing </chapt> in packaging.sgml (closes: #51091)
2815 * Correct typo in policy 2.3.5 (closes: #52225)
2817 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 20 Dec 1999 20:39:57 +0000
2820 debian-policy (3.1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2822 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 6.2.
2823 * Correction to typo in packaging manual, section 12.2.5 (closes:
2825 * More corrections to packaging manual typos (closes: #50857)
2827 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:23:31 +0000
2829 debian-policy (3.1.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2831 * Correct description of negated architectures in Build-Depends
2832 description in Packaging manual (closes: #49901)
2834 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:03:48 +0000
2836 debian-policy (3.1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2838 * Add instructions on /usr/doc -> /usr/share/doc symlinks (closes:
2839 #45561, #42447, #48570)
2840 * Added source dependencies (closes: #41232)
2841 * Deprecated /etc/rc.boot (closes: #32448, #32449)
2842 * Update-rc.d now only legal way to automatically access /etc/rc?.d
2843 directoried (closes: #41547)
2844 * FHS compliant location of examples (closes: #42849)
2845 * Added ispell-dictionary to virtual-packages.list (following new
2846 suggestions: no objections => accept) (closes: #8221)
2847 * Added man-browser to virtual-packages.list (closes: #24695)
2848 * Added ident-server to virtual-packages.list (closes: #45307)
2849 * Alphabeticised virtual packages list ;)
2850 * Corrected GPL reference in proposal.sgml
2851 * Clarification of "extra" priority (closes: #33076)
2852 * Remove buggy and seriously problematic licenses from list of contrib
2853 package criteria (closes: #45318)
2854 * Move docs to /usr/share/doc with a compatibility symlink (closes:
2856 * Update to FHS 2.1 draft #3 (for /var/state etc. changes).
2857 * Correct /var/lib/games -> /var/games (closes: #42358)
2858 * Added MIME subpolicy (closes: #46516)
2859 * Added support for VISUAL (closes: #41121)
2860 * Clarify non-dependence on /usr/local (closes: #44922)
2861 * Modified description of mail spool locking (closes: #43651)
2862 * Clarified wording of conffiles and configuration files (closes:
2864 * Changed description of release numbers (closes: #44620)
2865 * Added changelog.html -> changelog requirement (closes: $40934)
2866 * packaging-manual now correctly installs its docs (closes: #44643)
2867 * The packaging manual now discusses version numbers based on dates
2869 * Mention ls -f for testing order in which files appear on disk (closes:
2871 * Change order of '.' and '+' in description of version numbers (closes:
2873 * s/fields/field names/ in section 4.1 of packaging manual for clarity
2874 * Add Build-Depends-Indep: field to control file
2876 -- Julian Gilbey <jdg@debian.org> Thu, 4 Nov 1999 23:50:37 +0000
2878 debian-policy (3.0.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
2880 * Typo corrected in packaging manual. closes: Bug#40180
2881 * Chnaged rules file to create ps and pdf files.
2883 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Mon, 16 Aug 1999 01:21:09 -0500
2885 debian-policy (3.0.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2887 * A few typos and omissions corrected
2888 * Added the pop3-server to the virtual packages list, as decided on the
2890 * Fix the self reference to a location on the web site. closes: Bug#39408
2891 * Added the clarification that the .la files are essential for the
2892 packages using libtool's libltdl library, in which case the
2893 .la files must go in the run-time library package. (this is why this
2894 is version 3.0.1.0, and not 3.0.0.1)
2895 * The virtual package list has new directions (this has been true for a
2896 while, I am just closing the bug now). closes: Bug#26159
2897 * Since this package now contains the FHS, this closes: Bug#25533
2898 * The General resolution prototcol handling of the logos closes: Bug#26915
2899 * Inclusion of the Menu policy in the main policy document closes: Bug#30036
2900 * Since proposal submitting guidelines are now in the policy package,
2901 this closes: Bug#38612
2902 * Changed a /usr/doc reference to /usr/share/doc which had beeen missed
2903 before. closes: Bug#40864
2905 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 15 Jul 1999 13:35:11 -0500
2907 debian-policy (3.0.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2909 * This is a test version of the policy package, and shall not be
2910 officially uploaded.
2911 * Merged in the packaging manual sources (we still have two separate
2913 * Multiple minor packaging tweaks.
2914 * [ACCEPTED 1998/05/01] Policy clarification about Standards-Version
2915 Added the clarifying paragraph (and the rationale in a footnote).
2917 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/05] Policy note that GPL moved to
2918 /usr/share/common-licenses. Again, also added the rationale as a
2919 footnote. closes: Bug#28747
2920 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/04] Libtool archive (*.la) files in -dev' packages
2921 closes: Bug#37257, Bug#37338
2922 * [ACCEPTED 1999/04/28] Logrotation. Standardizer on logrotate.
2924 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/23] Rewrite of section 5.7 (Programs for the X
2925 Window System) closes: Bug#38212
2926 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/15] Separate menu policy (like virtual package list)
2928 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Utmp group proposal
2930 * [ACCEPTED 1999/05/09] Adopt the FHS in place of FSSTND
2931 Changed all references to the proper FHS versions. This was a first
2932 scan, so some references may still need to be changed. closes: Bug#37345
2933 * Updated the upgrading checklist.
2934 * updated the proposal for policy update to reflect the latest
2936 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:49:15 -0500
2938 debian-policy (2.5.1.0) unstable; urgency=low
2940 * Removed double '>' marks from the policy document. closes: Bug#35095
2941 * Corrected canonical source for "Csh Programming Considered Harmful"
2942 closes: Bug#36286 Bug#32499
2943 * Fixed typo in invocation of update-rc.d. closes: Bug#34988 Bug#34543
2944 * Fixed misspelling of accessible. Ran ispell over the rest of the
2945 document (painful because of the large number of technical terms in
2946 there). closes: Bug#34233
2947 * Make the binary package contain the version.ent as well. closes: Bug#31033
2948 * Fixed typo s/as is/is/. closes: Bug#30302
2949 * AMENDMENT 23/04/1999: changed /etc/nntpserver recommendation to
2950 /etc/news/server. closes: Bug#21875
2951 * Added the current list of policy maintainers. closes: Bug#30148
2953 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:10:29 -0500
2955 debian-policy (2.5.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
2957 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25911, which rearranged sections
2958 to create a new section 4, namely, files. Section 3.3 ("Files") should
2959 become Section 4. The Sections that are currently Section 4 and
2960 Section 5 should be moved down to become Section 5 and Section 6
2963 What is now Section 5.5 ("Log files") should be moved to be a
2964 subsection of the new Section 4 ("Files"), becoming section 4.8,
2965 placing it after "Configuration files", moving the would-be Section
2966 4.8 ("Permissions and owners") to Section 4.9. All subsections of the
2967 current Section 5 after 5.5 should be accordingly moved down to fill
2970 This, along with the next amendment, justifies bumping up the version
2971 number. closes: BUG#25911
2973 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #21185, about the naming and
2974 compression of changelog files. Now, if the upstream changelog file is
2975 HTML formatted, it should be accessible as
2976 /usr/doc/<package>/changelog.html.gz It also allows for this to be a
2977 symlink, if the upstream file name does not conform to Debian
2978 conventions. closes: BUG#21185
2980 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #7890, to make clear that the HTML
2981 documents should be supplied in _some_ package, not necessarily in the
2982 main binary package (at the discretion of the maintainer).
2985 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #26461, which corrects the policy
2986 to refer to /usr/doc/<package>/copyright, rather than
2987 /usr/doc/copyright/<package>. closes: BUG#26461
2989 * AMENDMENT: Added in changes in Bug #25385, which allow the
2990 architecture specification strings to be of the form <arch>-<os>,
2991 where os is one of linux, gnu. Previously, only linux was allowed, now
2992 we also cater to the hurd. closes: BUG#25385
2994 * The responsibility of the contents of this package has now passed to
2995 the debian-policy mailing list. The packaging details are now being
2996 managed by a group of maintainers that do ot won the contents.
2998 * Make the package optional, not extra.
3000 * Re did the SGML markup. Normalized the document, and undid the omitted
3001 and shor tags. Personally, I use too many DTD's in real life to be so
3002 converssant with each one to be clever with tag omissions, and, since
3003 I have a smart editor, omitting tags does not byuy one much. In the
3004 process, I discovered a few errors in the markup (one of my
3005 predecessors hasd the unfortunate habit of treating <p> as a "create
3006 some space here" tag, and more often than not put it at the end of a
3007 paragraph, rather than using is as a container element (which is what
3010 * Re did the control files, making them more robust
3012 * re did the rules file, making it more general, and easier to maintain
3013 by putting in a layer of abstractions.
3016 -- Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> Thu, 29 Oct 1998 15:16:52 -0600
3018 debian-policy (2.4.1.4) unstable; urgency=low
3020 * New Maintainer <debian-policy@lists.debian.org>
3022 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Sat, 5 Sep 1998 02:41:35 +0100
3024 debian-policy (2.4.1.3) unstable; urgency=low
3026 * New maintainer (with changes from Adam P. Harris' proposed NMU)
3027 * policy.sgml: some awkward phrasings fixed (closes Bug#22006)
3028 * policy.sgml: s/depreciated/deprecated (closes Bug#21831)
3029 * debian/control: added conflict doc-base (<< 0.6), which I still am not
3030 sure why we need this but hey (closes Bug#21554)
3031 * policy.sgml: use new <url> tag where appropriate
3032 * policy.sgml, debian/control: always dynamically self reference the
3033 current version of policy, that is, do not hard code policy revision
3035 * debian/rules: use dpkg-gencontrol -isp
3036 * bugs fixed in some unknown previous version (closes Bug#23177)
3038 -- Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> Tue, 11 Aug 1998 09:54:17 +0100
3040 debian-policy (2.4.1.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3042 * non-maintainer release
3043 * rebuild package to fix truncated Chapter 3 (Bug#23408, not marked as
3044 important but should be, since a gaping hole in policy is very
3046 * bumped version of policy, within the document, to this version number,
3047 but not the date, indicating nothing really changed since then
3048 * no content changes
3049 * debian/rules: clean is a little cleaner
3051 -- Adam P. Harris <aph@debian.org> Tue, 16 Jun 1998 03:15:22 -0400
3053 debian-policy (2.4.1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3057 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Thu, 14 May 1998 21:54:50 +0200
3059 debian-policy (2.4.1.0) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3061 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
3063 - Updated section 3.1.2 Site-specific programs
3064 and section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
3065 + improved wording (fixes:bug#20129)
3067 - Updated section 2.1.7 Subsections:
3068 + fixed typos (fixes:bug#18145)
3070 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic links:
3071 + symbolic links within a toplevel directory should be relative,
3072 symbolic links between toplevel directories should be absolute
3073 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 2)
3075 - Updated section 3.4 System run levels:
3076 + Intro: mention /etc/rcS.d (links to boot time scripts)
3077 + Notes: include rationale why /etc/init.d scripts have to be tagged
3078 as conffiles (fixes:bug#16199)
3079 + Example: changed example init.d script to handle force-reload
3080 and restart options and to comply with the console message
3081 standard (fixes:bug#19216)
3083 - Updated section 4.8 Emacs lisp programs:
3084 + Replaced old section about lisp programs with a reference to
3085 the file debian-emacs-policy.gz, installed by the emacsen-common
3088 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
3089 + manpages for games should be installed in /usr/man/man6
3090 (cf., Policy Weekly Issue#6, topic 3)
3092 - Removed one example reference to the current standards version
3093 - Include manual's date as plain text in the .sgml source so that
3094 a recompiled manual uses the same release date
3096 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3097 - Removed obsolete virtual package `emacs'
3099 * New version numbering scheme:
3101 - The version numbers are independent of dpkg now, but all policy
3102 manuals (the Debian Policy Manual, the Debian Packaging Manual, and
3103 the Debian Developer's Reference) share the same version numbering
3106 - The first three digits of the version number specify the
3107 `Standards-Version.' This number is incremented with each policy
3108 change. The fourth digit represents the `patch-level,' which may
3109 differ between the manuals.
3111 If only the patch-level digit is incremented, no changes in policy
3112 have been made, except bug fixes and clarifications. Packages only
3113 have to specify the first three digits of the version number in the
3114 `Standards-Version' field of their source packages.
3116 * Packaging changes:
3118 - Uploaded to frozen and unstable. This is a documentation-only
3119 package and the changes to the manual are relevant for hamm.
3121 - Fixed FSF's address in copyright file (detected by Lintian)
3123 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 14 Apr 1998 10:08:09 +0200
3125 debian-policy (2.4.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3127 * Changes to the Debian Policy Manual:
3129 - Updated section 3.3.4 Scripts:
3130 + /bin/sh may be any POSIX compatible shell
3131 + scripts including bashisms have to specify /bin/bash as
3133 + scripts which create files in world-writable directories
3134 (e.g., in /tmp) should use tempfile or mktemp for creating
3137 - Updated section 3.3.5 Symbolic Links:
3138 + symbolic links referencing compressed files must have the same
3139 file extension as the referenced file
3141 - Updated section 3.3.6 Device files:
3142 + /dev/tty* serial devices should be used instead of /dev/cu*
3144 - Updated section 3.4.2 Writing the scripts [in /etc/init.d]:
3145 + all /etc/init.d scripts have to provide the following options:
3146 start, stop, restart, force-reload
3147 + the reload option is optional and must never stop and restart
3150 - Updated section 3.5 Cron jobs:
3151 + cron jobs that need to be executed more often than daily should
3152 be installed into /etc/cron.d
3154 - Updated section 3.7 Menus:
3155 + removed section about how to register HTML docs to `menu'
3156 (the corresponding section in 4.4, Web servers and applications,
3157 has been removed in policy 2.2.0.0 already, so this one was
3160 - New section 3.8 Keyboard configuration:
3161 + details about how the backspace and delete keys should be
3164 - New section 3.9 Environment variables:
3165 + no program must depend on environment variables to get a
3166 reasonable default configuration
3168 - New section 4.6 News system configuration:
3169 + /etc/news/organization and /etc/news/server should be supported
3170 by all news servers and clients
3172 - Updated section 4.7 Programs for the X Windows system:
3173 + programs requiring a non-free Motif library should be provided
3174 as foo-smotif and foo-dmotif package
3175 + if lesstif works reliably for such program, it should be linked
3176 against lesstif and not against a non-free Motif library
3178 - Updated section 4.9 Games:
3179 + games for X Windows have to be installed in /usr/games, just as
3182 - Lots of typos fixed (thanks to Ray Dassen for the patch!)
3184 * Changes to the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3185 - added `libc-dev' and `emacsen'
3187 * Merged `/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz' into this
3190 * Included `Policy checklist for upgrading your packages' from the
3191 Policy Home Page as /usr/doc/debian-policy/upgrading-checklist.text.gz
3193 * Added support for doc-base to register the Policy Manual to the
3194 online documentation systems dwww and dhelp (fixes:#15710)
3196 * Upgraded to standards version 2.4.0.0 (no changes)
3198 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:58:25 +0100
3200 debian-policy (2.3.0.1) unstable; urgency=low
3202 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
3203 - X library package is now called xlib6g
3204 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3205 - Added emacs, c-compiler, fortran77-compiler, lambdamoo-core,
3207 * Conflict with old dpkg-dev version that included policy manual
3209 * Removed `tentative-opt-draft' from package since people considered
3210 the draft official policy (which is not the case)
3211 * Don't use debstd anymore
3213 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 21 Oct 1997 23:03:52 +0200
3215 debian-policy (2.3.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3217 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
3218 - reworked chapter `The Debian Archive' to cover new
3219 contrib/non-free policy
3220 - call "contrib" and "non-free" a `section' (not `distribution')
3221 - refer to license files (GPL, LGPL, etc.) as uncompressed files
3222 - changed `/etc/news/server' into `/etc/nntpserver' in example of
3223 maintainer scripts (fixes #11517)
3224 - new section about `Daemons'
3225 - updated section about `Configuration files'
3226 - MUAs and MTAs have to use liblockfile
3227 - fixed typos and grammatical errors
3228 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names:
3229 - renamed tcl/tk virtual package names to `tclsh' and `wish'
3230 * Paper about libc6 migration:
3231 - fixed typos (fixes #11641), thanks to James Troup for the patch!
3232 * SGML source code included in package
3233 * don't use `2-up' style for PostScript version (fixes #11095)
3235 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 2 Sep 1997 00:54:31 +0200
3237 debian-policy (2.2.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
3239 * Changes in the Debian Policy Manual:
3240 - completely reworked structure
3241 - moved sections about new maintainers, upload procedure, interim
3242 releases, and mailing lists into the Developers Reference Manual
3243 - moved a few (small) sections into the Debian Packaging Manual
3244 - removed all those ugly footnotes
3245 - new example for "reload" in section about console messages
3246 - mention Artistic License (fixes #9793)
3247 - don't mention dpkg's version number in Policy Manual
3248 - rewrote abstract and section introductions
3249 - mention "orphaned packages"
3250 - maintainer is responsible for a package license to comply with the
3251 distributions' policy
3252 - putting a package into base section requires discussion on debian-devel
3253 - rewrote sections about "pre-depends", "essential" and, "base" packages
3254 - added note that non-us' maintainers have to live outside the US
3255 - added crypto-hook statement (fixes #7257)
3256 - added section about arch spec strings
3257 - rewrote section about "Site specific programs" (/usr/local)
3258 - included Ian's suggestions for user IDs
3259 - added section about "menus"
3260 - removed section about "web menus" since this will be superseded with
3261 the new documentation policy soon
3262 - incorporated "Debian Free Software Guidelines" (fixes #9024)
3263 - removed note that linking with -g produces large a.out binary (fixes
3265 - added section about editors and pagers
3266 - added note about Package priorities and dependencies
3267 - added section about cron jobs (fixes #8814)
3268 - added section about device files
3269 - don't install shared libraries as executable (fixes #7129)
3270 - app-defaults files may not be conffiles (cf. #2717)
3271 - lots of minor changes not worth mentioning here (typos, formulations,
3273 * Changes in the authoritative list of virtual package names
3274 - Removed obsolete virtual packages: xR6shlib, xlibraries,
3275 compress, emacs, sgmls, inews, gs_x, gs_svga, gs_both, xpmR6
3276 - Added new section about obsolete names
3277 * Added Helmut Geyer's paper about libc5-libc6 migration
3278 * Fixed package's description
3280 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sun, 13 Jul 1997 13:25:51 +0200
3282 debian-policy (2.1.3.3) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3284 * Mention Artistic License in section 2.5 (bug #9755)
3286 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Wed, 14 May 1997 16:53:15 +0200
3288 debian-policy (2.1.3.2) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3290 * Fixed an email address, an URL, and several typos in chapter 6 (#9358)
3291 * Added new virtual package "wordlist" to list (requested by Joey Hess)
3292 * Changed wording in section about "non-free" packages as suggested
3293 by Kai Henningsen (#7076)
3295 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Mon, 5 May 1997 20:05:39 +0200
3297 debian-policy (2.1.3.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
3299 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-ur' should read `-us' (#8874)
3300 * Fixed bug in chapter 7: `-rwhatever' also needed for rebuild (#8874)
3301 * Create a PS and HTML version of the Policy Manual and upload it
3303 * Install virtual-package-names-list.text in /usr/doc/debian-policy
3304 and upload it "byhand" too.
3306 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Tue, 29 Apr 1997 18:02:14 +0200
3308 debian-policy (2.1.3.0) unstable; urgency=low
3311 * New Policy Manager: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org>
3312 * Added section 2.4 about the "non-us" distribution.
3313 * Added section 3.1.1 about the "Package" field in the control file.
3314 * Added section 3.2.1 about "Binaries": two programs with different
3315 functionality must not have the same name.
3316 * Changed headline of section 3.2.6 into "Debian changelog and upstream
3317 changelog" as suggested by Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>.
3318 * Added log-rotating example to section 3.2.9 that tests with `-sf',
3319 as suggested by Boris D. Beletsky <borik@isracom.co.il>.
3320 * Added section 3.13: "Webstandard 3.0" by Christoph Lameter.
3321 * Added section 3.14: "Standard for Console Messages" by Christian Schwarz.
3322 * Split section 4.1 into 4.1.1 (Options for binaries) and 4.1.2 (Options
3324 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be compiled with `-D_REENTRANT'
3325 to make them compatible with LinuxThreads, by Rob Browning
3326 <osiris@cs.utexas.edu>.
3327 * Added note to 4.1.2: Libraries should be stripped with
3328 "strip --strip-unneeded", by Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu>.
3329 * Section 5.2: Policy changelog is now
3330 "/usr/doc/debian-policy/changelog-policy.gz". This fixes bug #6130.
3331 * Section 6.2 renamed to "Uploading your first Debian package". This
3334 -- Christian Schwarz <schwarz@debian.org> Sat, 15 Mar 1997 18:08:56 +0100
3336 debian-manuals (2.1.2.2) frozen unstable;
3338 * Fixed even more typographical and grammatical errors in Policy and
3340 * Corrected the contact email addresses again.
3341 * Added a paragraph to Policy 6.3 on taking over an old package (Guy Maor)
3342 * Added a paragraph to Programmer 4.2.14 on listing distributions to load
3343 a package into. (Guy Maor)
3344 * Further clarification of use of absolute pathnames in scripts in
3347 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Tue, 3 Dec 1996 23:28:04 -0600
3349 debian-manuals (2.1.2.1) frozen unstable;
3351 * Many editorial and formatting revisions with suggestions from Ian Jackson,
3353 * correction of chiark address in Policy 6.2
3354 * footnote in Programmers chapter 2 pointing to deb(5) manpage for
3355 description of deb file format.
3356 * addition of more dpkg examples in Programmer chapter 2
3357 * Replace paragraph in Policy 4.1 outlining compiling parameters for
3359 * Added paragraph in Programmer 6.1 on paths in maintainer scripts
3361 * Cleaned up language and formatting of Programmer's 12.2, shlibs
3362 * Corrected contact addresses for listmaster and override-change
3364 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Wed, 27 Nov 1996 08:17:16 -0600
3366 debian-manuals (2.1.2.0) frozen unstable;
3368 * Mostly editorial changes in Policy Manual.
3369 * Added summary of distribution criteria to Introduction
3370 * Added section headings for copyright criteria
3371 * Fixed typos (Bugs #4485, #4622)
3372 * Added paragraph in Compilation Options related to use of shared and
3373 static libraries. (Bug #5299)
3374 * Paragraph added about where to find PGP and other export restricted
3375 packages in section on Procedure
3376 * Change in List administrator and in the contact address for becoming
3377 a package maintainer
3378 * A paragraph added related to who to contact for package maintainer changes.
3379 * Changed where to send upload announcements: uploads destined for unstable,
3380 frozen, or experimental go to debian-devel-changes.
3382 * Made some mostly editorial changes to Programmers Manual.
3383 * Added a recommendation to debmake in Introduction.
3384 * A further interpretation of the various Distributions is added with
3385 the intent of helping people decide which one to choose. (section 4.2.14)
3386 * Section 12 on Shared Libraries expanded with further technical information
3387 on various shlib files
3388 * Section in 2.2 on format of shlib file moved to new subsection within 12.
3389 * Paragraph on adding a symlink without version number added to Shared
3390 Library Section (Guy Maor, Bug #5299)
3392 -- David Morris <bweaver@worf.netins.net> Fri, 22 Nov 1996 23:41:39 -0600
3394 debian-manuals (2.1.1.0) unstable;
3396 * Hard links are forbidden in source packages (they didn't work anyway,
3397 and can't easily be made to work reliably).
3398 * Do not use dpkg-divert or update-alternatives without consultation.
3400 * Do not need to declare dependencies on Essential packages.
3401 * Restrictions on Pre-Depends stated in policy manual.
3402 * debian/substvars file is now almost always auto-generated.
3403 * Shared libraries must be installed stripped.
3404 * Essential and Pre-Depends put together in policy manual.
3406 * Explained component-wise (file-wise) vs. package-wise dependencies.
3408 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 12 Sep 1996 01:00:41 +0100
3410 debian-manuals (2.1.0.0) unstable;
3412 * Upstream changelog must be installed too (was just recommended).
3414 * Modification to use dpkg-shlibdeps added to conversion instructions.
3415 * Packages which are buggy and orphaned but which are preserved for
3416 compatibility go in contrib.
3418 * Programmers' manual source package section refers to conversion
3419 instructions in policy manual.
3420 * Make it clear that recommending a non-free or contrib package puts a
3423 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sun, 1 Sep 1996 17:47:18 +0100
3425 debian-manuals (2.0.1.0) unstable;
3427 * varargs.h and libtermcap are obsolete - use stdarg.h and ncurses.
3428 * Shared library link/library ordering corrected (aargh).
3429 * When to byte-compile Elisp files.
3430 * Missing final newlines not represented by dpkg-source.
3432 * Must post upload announcements to debian-changes.
3433 * Moved some sections into new `configuring and building' chapter.
3436 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 31 Aug 1996 20:07:22 +0100
3438 debian-manuals (2.0.0.0) unstable;
3440 * Footnote added OK'ing copyrights which require name changes.
3441 * More detail about changelog format names.
3443 * Problematic licence restrictions are formatted as lists.
3444 * Mentioned 822-date utility as way to generate RFC822 format dates.
3448 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Mon, 26 Aug 1996 14:27:34 +0100
3450 debian-manuals (0.2.1.1) unstable;
3452 * Can't overwrite directories in one package with files in another.
3454 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Sat, 24 Aug 1996 18:44:54 +0100
3456 debian-manuals (0.2.1.0) unstable;
3458 * Policy says when and how to include original source in upload.
3460 * Need -sa on dpkg-genchanges/dpkg-buildpackage when converting.
3462 * Use minor patchlevel for meaning changes which don't affect packages.
3463 * More verbosity about netiquette.
3464 * Reorganised participation and upload policy: merged with mailing lists.
3466 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 12:48:09 +0100
3468 debian-manuals (0.2.0.1) experimental;
3470 * Said that system administrators' manual does not exist.
3472 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Fri, 23 Aug 1996 04:05:36 +0100
3474 debian-manuals (0.2.0.0) experimental;
3478 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk> Wed, 21 Aug 1996 15:07:53 +0100